Alexandra Petri Washington Post, Wikipedia - Bio, Age, Wiki, Book, Play

Name Alexandra Petri

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB No confirmed information is available on the year she was born.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

An author, columnist and playwright, Alexandra Petri has made her own mark in the world of Journalism by becoming the youngest person to have a column on The Washington Post.

Family Background & Parents Details :

Petri was born and brought up in Georgetown, Washington. She is the only child of parents – Tom Petri & Anne D Neal.
Her father was a Wisconsin State Congressman & her mother was a chief executive of a Non-profit organization – American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
Anne D Neal is originally from Indiana while Tom Petri had lived all his life in Wisconsin. Both of them are alma mater of Harvard University.
She currently resides in Washington, DC.

Educational Qualifications :

Alexandra did her high schooling from National Cathedral School in Washington. It is an independent Episcopal private day school for girls only and was founded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Bishop Henry Yates.
There, Petri wrote school plays for a competition, some of which were chosen to be performed into. She was also involved in Stand up Comedy scene.
After High School, she attended Harvard University. Her discipline was English with a special emphasis on classics. She was also part of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
While at Harvard, she joined the Harvard Stand up Comedy Society and Hasty Pudding Club. She also wrote for the web comedy series ‘On Harvard Time’ and ‘Harvard Crimson.’

TV Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Alexandra’s first step towards a writing career started when she joined The Washington Post as a summer intern. She showcased excellent work in her short stint that guaranteed her a job at the prestigious post.
Apart from Washington Post, her writing/articles has/have appeared in Highlights magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Week Magazine, Verily Magazine, Newsday, The Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, the Denver Post and several others.
She is a member of playwrights collective in Washington D.C. called ‘The Welders.’
In 2015, she published her book of essays titled A Field Guide to Awkward Silences.
One of her plays – The Campsite Rule, a sex comedy, premiered at the Capital Fringe Festival in the year 2013. Apparently, the idea for the play was inspired from Dan Savage.
The writers and comedians she is inspired by most are Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Mitch Hedberg and James Thurber.
Apart from writing, she has appeared on shows on ESPN, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, Al Jazeera, BBC Eadio and NPR.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

Alexandra’s college roommate was Megan Amram; a comedian and writer known for her one-liners on Twitter (now called X) and stint as writer at Disney Channel television sitcom A.N.T. Farm, NBC’s Parks and Recreation and Children’s Hospital.
She is known for her forthright flip-flop style of writing i.e. sometimes serious and sometimes humorous.
In order to take the job at ‘The Washington Post,’ she had to turn down a fellowship to study Renaissance poetry at the University of Oxford in England.
Alexandra once quoted “My Goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far no one has.”
She has written children’s musical based on forest creatures.
She once speed dated at a Star Wars convention!
Of white ethnicity, she has dark blonde hair with brown eyes.
She is weirdly a proud ‘International Pun Champion’!