Alex Riad, Playwright & Screenwriter

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Faster Horses (2 W)
Full-length, 90min
Two women sick of male-dominated start-ups decide to rebel against the tech industry and create their own app.
*In development

Asteroid (1 M, 3 W)
Full-length, 100min
A liberal millennial political activist, maimed in an anti-Trump rally, copes with his physical/mental injuries and loss of faith in America by developing a conspiracy theory that explains everything then invites his train-wreck of a best friend to his house upstate to convince her it's real and abandon society.
*In development

THE WILD PARROTS OF CAMPBELL (3M, 2 W)
Full-length, 135min

In a rundown house in a California suburb, a group of loser twenty-something roommates, find their low rent, slacker existence threatened when their friend/landlord invites a strange girl he met online to move in, igniting tensions amongst the friends and digging up the home's past familial trauma.
*Production due in December 2019 by NOW Collective

THE FLOOR IS LAVA (3M, 1W)
Full-length, 90min

Held up in the basement of a friend's billion-dollar Silicon Valley start-up's New Years Eve Party with an endless supply of scotch, a technophobic twenty-something, whose successful life self-destructed spectacularly in New York, struggles to maintain normalcy, old friendships, and his sanity as her ponders where he fits in a world governed by social media and instant success.
*Won Best Play, Production, and Ensemble at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in 2017.  First production, The Farm Theater.

IF YOU EVER COME BY HERE (1M, 1W)
Full-length, 60min

A socially isolated, early twenties, drug store clerk attempts suicide, but is unknowingly interrupted by his co-worker when she interrupts with a knock on his door late one night. What unfolds from that moment causes their friendship and lives to reach a breaking point from which neither can return.
*First production produced by Essential Theater Group at The Tank Theater

WHEN YOU GO (3M, 1F)
One-Act, 40min

Josh, Mike, Becca and Clark get together for one last night before one of them leaves their rural upstate town for New York City. A night of final goodbyes becomes a hotbed for expressing what's been boiling below the surface.
*First production produced by Essential Theater Group at The Tank Theater as part of "Zurich, NY"

STANDBYS (1M, 3W)
Full-length, 100min

Two executives who used to be close friends, but who despise each other now, are forced to confront the moment when it all went wrong, while sitting next to each other on a flight as they fight through a blizzard to get home for Christmas.
*Workshop production at the Thespis Festival at the Cabrini Repertory Theater

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