Maria Alexandria Beech

Maria Alexandria (Alex) Beech is a US-educated Venezuelan American writer for stage and screen living Los Angeles. Her work has been performed in New York, Colorado, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, South Korea, and Venezuela. Her musicals in development include "Blue Skies" with Christie Baugher and "Bayouland" with Brett Macias. An excerpt of the "Bayouland" will be performed in Tall Tales of El Mexicano Blanco at The Green Room in January 2023. Her musical "Class" with Karl Saint Lucy was a finalist in The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Her plays include: "Infinity Pond" (Aspen Theater Masters’ Visionary Award; Primary Stages/Theater Masters; Palm Beach Theatre Festival; Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival) "Good Friends" (New American Voices Festival; Crossing Borders Festival), "BONDS" (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages), "Saving the Lives of Strangers" (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages), "Charity" (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages), "Breaking Walls" (Cherry Lane Theatre), "Little Monsters" (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages; Primary Stages and Brandeis Theater Company; 101 Plays by The New Americans, or on Latinidad), "What Are You Doing Here?" (Outstanding Playwriting Award, Planet Connections Festivity), "The Islands" (Fresh Ink Series, Primary Stages; Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s The Mix), "Gloria" (Readings, EST and Intar), "The One Chicken Show"(Women Writers Group, Dorset Theater Festival, Nolan Doran at Here Arts Center), and "Tycoons."

TV pilots include: Telemamas (Finalist, The Sundance Episodic Lab.) Screenplay: Constance (Mark Pellington’s Prolific Content)

Storyteller: "Fidel and Me" (Audible Book, Talking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts)

Alex earned a BA and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and MFA in Cycle 21  of The Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at NYU. She is a breast cancer-during-the-pandemic survivor.