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.

PlayMakers: Dramaturgy Fellow from 2023 to present, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and PlayMakers Repertory Company.

Recent credits: The Christmas Case of Hezekiah Jones, Clyde's, Misery, Much Ado about Nothing, Fat Ham, Murder on the Orient Express, The Game (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Regional Dramaturgy: Sea Change (Capital Arts Theatre Guild); No Man's Land (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, or what you will, The Mesquite Tree, The Pinata, Decolonizing Your Mind with Walter Mercado, 1970's College Sex Comedy (Indiana University, Bloomington); How We Return (Cardinal Stage, Bloomington).

Publications: "NAATC Opens New Doors for Indy Theatremakers, "American Theatre magazine; "Active Dramaturgy in the New Play Process, or, What I Learned from Walter Mercado," Indiana University Press

Faculty: Visiting Professor of the Practice, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Education and Affiliations: MFA in Dramaturgy, Indiana University, Bloomington; M.A. in English Literature, California State University, Stanislaus; Dual B.A. in Theatre Arts and English, California State University Stanislaus; The National New Play Network."

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