| Alexander Dinelaris Jr. | |
| Birth Date: | 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Washington Heights, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Director, Producer, Writer |
| Years Active: | 2014–present |
Alexander Dinelaris Jr. is a screenwriter. He is one of four who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2014 film Birdman at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015.[1] Dinelaris also wrote the book for the Broadway musical On Your Feet about the life and career of Gloria Estefan.[2] For this, he was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. In 2019, he formed his New York–based production company Lexicon and announced that its first feature film will be an adaptation of the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde, which Dinelaris will adapt into a screenplay and produce. That same year, he filmed the short film In This, Our Time, which he wrote and directed.[3]
The first workshop of Boman Irani's Spiral Bound was conducted by Alexander Dinelaris Jr [4] [5] [6]
In February 8, 2023, it was announced that Alexander Dinelaris Jr is working with Residente to co-write a new film title Porto Rico [7]