Alexandra Sokoloff

Alex is a California native who grew up in both Northern and Southern California as the daughter of scientist and educator parents, which drove her into musical theater at an early age. She acted, sang, danced and played classical piano through the turbulent tween years, and started directing plays at age sixteen, a year she also lived in Istanbul as an AFS exchange student and began college.

At U.C. Berkeley, she majored in theater and minored in everything that Berkeley has a reputation for. While not doing—everything else—she wrote, directed, and acted in productions from Shakespeare to street theater; trained in modern and jazz dance; directed and choreographed four full-scale musicals; spent a summer singing backup vocals in a bar at Glacier National Park, audited at least three times as many classes in various subjects as she was actually taking, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, which is a miracle considering—well, never mind that. After college she moved down to LA where she simultaneously worked in a metaphysical bookstore, taught incarcerated juveniles in the LA County prison system, and read screenplays for various studios while she was writing her own first screenplay, which sold in a bidding war. So no, she’s never had a real job in her life.

Alex now lives in Los Angeles and in Scotland, with Scottish noir author Craig Robertson. In her free time (!) she enjoys adventure travel and all kinds of dance, which she has also taught, and performs with Heather Graham’s all-author Slush Pile Players and the UK-based all-author cabaret group The Slice Girls. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, West, and of the Board of the Mystery Writers of America. She can be found blogging and teaching her popular Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workshop on her Screenwriting Tricks For Authors blog. She is also very active on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Goodreads. But not an addict. No, seriously, it’s under control.