Alex Riad

Alex Riad is an Egyptian-American writer based in New York City. He's the Literary Fellow at The Farm Theater, a member of The Actor's Studio Playwright Unit, and a Lila Acheson Wallace American playwrighting fellow at The Juilliard School.

Theatre Credits: The Wild Parrots of Campbell (Cherry Lane Theater), The Floor is Lava (LaMama Experimental Theatre, 2017 Planet Connections Festival Best Play), If You Ever Come by Here (The Tank), When You Go (The Tank), Standbys (Thespis Festival), and Where She Hangs (Rondo Theatre, Bath, England). 

OF ALEXANDRIA

Three generations of Egyptians with uneasy relationships to each other embark on a road trip to Cape Cod to see a dying aunt no one speaks to who has helped and wounded each of them in vastly different, but equally lasting, ways.

QUALITY CELLULAR

During the height of the Great Recession in 2009, an Egyptian-American teenager is forced to work in his divorced parents’ failing cell phone shop the summer before college, coming of age as he sees the troublesome sides of his immigrant father, single mother, and their degenerate employees.

IN PLACE

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, six New Yorkers are forced to shelter in place together, forcing them to finally face the problems they’ve been avoiding and the toxic relationships they’ve formed with one another.

HEARTBEAT

A soon-to-be-married couple in New Orleans embarks on a road trip to Texas for an abortion as they struggle to keep their relationship together.

FASTER HORSES

Two women, sick of working at male-dominated tech companies, band together to start their own app, but working together exposes the cracks in their friendship and threatens to turn their venture into one of the soulless start-ups they’re rebelling against.

ASTEROID

A political activist turned conspiracy theorist invites his train wreck of a best friend to his house upstate to convince her that his theories are real and they must abandon society together.