Alex Lodge (Tangata Tiriti) is a writer of imagined and hyper-real worlds with a political conscience. Her play Sing to Me (directed by Miriama mcDowell, toured by Taki Rua productions) brings together climate change issues with intimate relationship dramas. She is known for writing rich and quirky worlds that often interrogate the inner lives of contemporary women in her plays Modern Girls in Bed and Tea for Toot (co-written with Cherie Jacobsen). Her essays have been published by The Spinoff, the Pantograph Punch and in several issues of the Playmarket Annual. She holds a Doctorate in Creative Practice for trilingual scriptwriting from The University of Waikato. Her manuscript Norsewood was longlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize 2023. Her first novel Lifelikeness was published in 2025 by Dinnae Press Aotearoa.