Alyssa Cokinis

Alyssa Cokinis is a writer and theatre artist from Iowa, currently based in Oregon. She has an MA in Intercultural Communication Studies from Shanghai Theatre Academy and a BA in English and Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa. Their plays have been produced off-off-Broadway at FRIGID New York’s Little Shakespeare Festival (The Lark and the Nightingale, co-written with Mindy Mawhirter) and at Oregon Fringe Festival, Atlanta Fringe Audio, YUZ Museum (Shanghai, China), New Plays from the Heartland Festival, MadLab Theatre, and the University of Iowa. The MadLab Theatre production of her LGBTQ+ dystopian play Happy Pills received recognition from Ohio Congresswoman Beatty due to its themes on mental health. Publications include work in WE/OURSELVES: Ten-Minute Plays Celebrating Gender Diversity (Smith & Kraus), the Nonbinary Monologues Project, fifth wheel press, Beatdom, Chaotic Merge Magazine, and elsewhere. She is also the founder and editor of the publication some scripts, which in 2023 published the curated anthology Monologues by LGBTQIA+ Writers for LGBTQIA+ Actors.

Languages: English (native fluency), Mandarin Chinese (intermediate fluency)