Alex Medland

Alex Medland is an actor and award-winning playwright from Aotearoa/New Zealand, now based in Edinburgh.

Her last play We’re Gonna Kill Billy was recently read at The Royal Court Theatre’s Open Submission Festival. We’re Gonna Kill Billy also won The 2025 Adam New Zealand Play Award for Best Play, Best Play by a Māori Playwright and Best Play by a Woman. Alex is currently the youngest recipient of the Adam Award in its eighteen year history. In the UK, We’re Gonna Kill Billy was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting and The Alpine Prize, and long-listed for The Bruntwood Prize.

Alex’s first play Becoming Jeff Bezos won Playmarket New Zealand’s 2024 b425 Award and was recently read as part of Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival’s He Kākano readings. She is one of the founding members of Half Trick Theatre, a kiwi theatre company based in Edinburgh dedicated to making irreverent reinventions of untouchable classics. This is Alex’s first professional commission, and she’s beyond excited to work with Wonderfools.