Biography
Alexander Dinelaris Jr. is an American screenwriter and playwright. Born in 1968 in New York, he studied theatre directing before writing plays including Still Life and Zanna, Don't!. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical On Your Feet!, for which he received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination.
Dinelaris co-wrote the screenplay for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bó; the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He later co-wrote the screenplay for Carmen (2022) and has worked as a producer on films including The Revenant (2015). In 2019 he founded the New York-based production company Lexicon.
