Screenwriter. Actress. Creator. Teacher. Founder.
Alexa Alemanni started her career as an actor. She’s most well known for playing Allison on the Emmy-winning AMC Drama Mad Men for four seasons, for which she won a SAG Award.
As a writer, she launched her career with the pilot Appletown, which landed on the Tracking Board’s Young & Hungry List. On the television side, with her writing partner, she staffed on TNT’s hit show The Librarians and sold their pilot: Mansfield Park to Tornante Media.
On the feature side, she’s had original features set up at UCP for USA, Level Forward & Prodigal Films, as well as book adaptations for Black Label among others. Currently active projects in the feature space: an under-wraps feature with Olive Bridge / Balcony 9 & Sony, a feature with 21 Laps / Netflix and a third original with Black Label Media.
Alexa runs her own writing studio: Bad Pitch Writers Lab and is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at USC. She served as a Backstage Expert, and was recently a contributing writer to The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writers’ Life In Prison.
She is a graduate of Vassar College with a degree in theater & history.