Alexa Junge is a television writer, producer and screenwriter. She is best known for her work on the series Friends.
Four-time Emmy and WGA Award nominee, Junge grew up in Los Angeles, attended Barnard College

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...

 where she wrote The Columbia Varsity Show with David Rakoff

David Rakoff

David Rakoff is a Canadian-born writer based in New York City who is noted for his humorous, sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and actor and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life...

 and Jeanine Tesori.  Junge continued her education at NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts. Junge wrote for Friends from 1994-1999. Nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards, Junge also won the National AOL Poll for writing the "All Time Favorite Friends Episode" for '"The One Where Everybody Finds Out." Junge went on to write for Once and Again

Once and Again

Once and Again is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999 to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father...

, Sex and the City

Sex and the City

Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...

, West Wing

West Wing

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(where she was nominated for two Emmys and two WGA Awards) as well as
Big Love

Big Love

Big Love is an American television drama that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy...

and the BBC comedy Clone

Clone (TV series)

Clone is a 2008 BBC Three comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first human clone...

. Junge also wrote lyrics for Disney's Mulan 2, screenplay and lyrics for Disney’s Lilo & Stitch 2.
A frequent contributor to National Public Radio’s This American Life

This American Life

This American Life is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. It is distributed by Public Radio International on PRI affiliate stations and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays,...

, Junge performed live for their 2008 “What I Learned From Television” tour. Junge served as Executive Producer and Showrunner for the first season of Showtime’s series The United States of Tara

The United States of Tara

United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which began airing on Showtime in 2009. The series follows the life of Tara , a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder....

and worked on Tilda

Tilda

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for HBO with Bill Condon

Bill Condon

William "Bill" Condon is an American screenwriter and director. Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, and Dreamgirls. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter in Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award....

, Alan Poul

Alan Poul

Alan Mark Poul is an American film and television producer and director.-Career:Poul served as executive producer for the HBO original series, Six Feet Under, on which he made his directing debut...

 and John Hoffman

John Hoffman

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.
Alexa is currently the Executive Producer and Showrunner for Lennon Parham

Lennon Parham

Lennon Parham is an American actress and comedienne best known for co-starring on the sitcom Accidentally on Purpose from 2009–2010.-Early life:Parham attended high school at Parkview High School....

 and Jessica St. Clair

Jessica St. Clair

Jessica St. Clair is an American actress, writer, sketch comedian and comedy improviser who often performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Los Angeles, usually as a member of the improv group Mother. Jessica has been a regular on the show Best Week Ever, offering her...

's NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 mid-season comedy Best Friends Forever

Best Friends Forever

"Best Friends Forever" is the fourth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series series South Park. It was written and directed by co-creator Trey Parker and first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 30, 2005....

which will air sometime in the 2011–2012 season.
Junge is married to fellow director/screenwriter Douglas Petrie and they have a son, Henry. She is the granddaughter of screenwriter Marvin Borowsky.

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