Alexa Junge produced her first play, Hocus Pocus and Good-bye, at age 17. She attended Barnard College for her B.A., while writing for and performing in the Columbia University Varsity Show, of which she was the first female director. While she continued her education at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, her comedy Correct Change was included in the 1989 Festival of New Plays and she received a national prize for playwriting. Most notably, Junge wrote for the show Friends from 1994 to 1999. Nominated for three Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award for the show, she also won the National AOL Poll for writing the "All Time Favorite Friends Episode" for the episode "The One Where Everybody Finds Out". She went on to write for Once and Again, Sex and the City, and The West Wing (for which she was nominated for one Emmy for production and one WGA Award) as well as Big Love and the BBC comedy Clone. She also wrote lyrics for Disney's Mulan 2, screenplay and lyrics for Disney's Lilo & Stitch 2. She was a founding head writer for the Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains It All. She is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's This American Life and performed live for their 2008 What I Learned from Television tour. She served as executive producer and show-runner for the first season of Showtime's series, The United States of Tara, worked on Tilda for HBO with Bill Condon, Alan Poul, and John Hoffman, and was the executive producer on Best Friends Forever for NBC.
Alexa Junge
Studios
Star
Alexa Junge worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…