Lexi Silva

Experience

Lir Academy Training

• MFA Playwriting - 2026

Other Experience

Lexi Silva (she/her) is a Portuguese and Palestinian-American playwright and dramaturg.

Prior to her arrival in Dublin, Lexi was the Dramaturgy Fellow and a Visiting Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a dual appointment at PlayMakers Repertory Company (PlayMakers). She began her career in the arts as a Literary Intern at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has been published in American Theatre magazine, Indiana University Press, and created a dramaturgical writing series featured on the PlayMakers' Unscripted blog. Lexi is an alumna of Indiana University where she completed an MFA in Dramaturgy in the program's inaugural cohort, and Calif. State University, Stanislaus, from which she holds an MA in English Literature and a Dual BA in Theatre and English. Lexi is proudly one of many first generation Americans and college graduates from California's Central Valley.

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