Screenwriter. Actress. Creator. Teacher. Founder.

Alexa started her career as an actor, working in independent features, as well as hit shows such as Masters of Sex, Lucifer, The West Wing & more, 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 a pilot: Mansfield Park to Tornante Media.

On the feature side, she and her writing partner have written adaptations of Something Blue, the sequel to the breakout hit Something Borrowed (Kate Hudson) for Black Label Media, and Serpent’s Bite by Warren Adler (War of the Roses) with Grey Eagle Films. They’ve sold and/or optioned original features to: UCP for USA, Black Label, Level Forward & Balcony 9.

Alexa is an assistant adjunct professor of Screenwriting at USC, and also teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy for both BFA & MFA students. She has had speaking engagements with Women in Film, Brian Patacca, and Caricon among others. She serves 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 and history.