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]