Alex Lubischer is a queer Midwestern playwright and screenwriter, born and raised on a farm in Nebraska. He lives in Rogers Park, Chicago.
His plays include Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company, Steep Theatre, Jeff Award Winner: Outstanding New Play), Pivot (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble), You Deserve to Be Here (Goodman Playwrights Unit commission; City Lit + Red Theater Co-Pro), Do Wasps Have Desires? (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Weird Kids (Haven Chicago), The Quonsets (Yale Cabaret, co-written with Majkin Holmquist), and Survey No. 5 (House of International Theatre, Copenhagen). He is currently working on a new play commission from Raven Theatre.
Lubischer is a former Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout Theatre Company. He has developed new work at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Page 73, The Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Victory Gardens Theater, First Floor Theater, Red Theater, The Understudy, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has been a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and a three-time finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Screenplays include Big Dave, an hour-long TV pilot co-conceived with Danilo Gambini—Hyperobject Industries is attached to produce—and three features: a 90s-set boy band movie for Division Global and Sappho Screen; an original thriller, Evildoers;and a bisexual coming-of-age comedy, The Deep End, co-written with Hanna Kime.
In addition to his work at University of Chicago, he has taught playwriting and screenwriting at DePaul University, Bramble Theatre Company, and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.