Alex Lyras has written and produced film, television and theater in New York and Los Angeles. He has sold TV pilots to NBC, FOX and Warner Brothers, developed an action comedy for Jerry Bruckheimer, and a drama for Joel Silver, with long-time collaborator Robert McCaskill.

Their sci-fi action script, Mister Heuristic, recently won Best TV Pilot at the Geneva International Science In Fiction Screenplay Awards.

His screenplay, HOW TO ADDRESS AN ENVELOPE, was a finalist in multiple contests and will be produced by Pico+Hudson this spring with Lyras directing.

His full-length screenplay, EDISON ILLUMINATED, won the Alfred P. Sloan Grant from the Tribeca Film Institute and was optioned by Castle Rock. He has written, directed and produced 6 short films. Elegy, won best screenplay at 15 Minutes of Fame Festival.

Lyras produced the feature film Heterosexuals, a comedy tracing three couples in three disparate stages of love, written and directed by Robert McCaskill, starring Natasha Lyonne and Tovah Feldshuh.

His roots lie in New York theater, where he has written, produced and starred in four Off-Broadway shows. The most recent, PLASTICITY, premiered at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles where it won an Ovation Award and topped the Huff Post’s Best Plays list, before transferring to the Greenwich House Theater in New York. It is currently being adapted for the screen.  

His previous production, THE COMMON AIR, won an Ovation Award in Los Angeles before transferring Off Broadway to 45 Bleecker Street Theater. UNEQUALIBRIUM was selected for publication in New Playwrights: Best Plays and Best Men’s Monologues For the Twenty First Century. Smith & Kraus recently published a TRILOGY of his plays with writing partner Robert McCaskill.

His most recent play, ARISTOTLE/ALEXANDER, a drama pitting the world’s most brilliant philosopher against the soon-to-be greatest conqueror in history, was commissioned and developed at the Getty Villa Theater Lab. It will have its West Coast premier in Los Angeles in 2025.

Lyras is a member of the Writer’s Guild West.