Alexandra Wood's plays include Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth); an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Initiate (Paines Plough); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). She is a winner of the George Devine Award and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013.