Alexis Scheer

Alexis Scheer’s breakout play was the off-Broadway hit Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (NYT Critics Pick, John Gassner Award; LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work; Kilroy’s List), and she made her Broadway debut adapting the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella. Other plays include ’Til Death (a 2ST commission), Laughs In Spanish (Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award), and Christina (Roe Green Award; O’Neill Finalist). Her plays have been produced at theatres across the country, including Second Stage, WP Theater, Center Theatre Group, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Stages Houston, GableStage, Zoetic Stage, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston Playwrights Theatre and many more. Alexis is currently under commission by Manhattan Theatre Club and Miami New Drama and is writing the book for the stage adaptation of Jerry Herman’s Mrs. Santa Claus, premiering at Goodspeed Musicals in 2025. Television/Film: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (HBO Max), and projects developed with HBO Max/Salma Hayek’s Ventanarosa and Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix.

Alexis is a proud alum of New World School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. She was born and raised in Miami, FL in a Jewish-Colombian household. Alexis now resides in Boston, MA with her music conductor husband and mini-Aussie, Sagan.