Vanessa Alexander is an American, Australian, New Zealand and British screenwriter, director and producer best known for writing on Vikings: Valhalla and The Great.
She also holds a post-graduate diploma in film directing from The Victorian College of the Arts[5] and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from The University of New South Wales.
[8] Alexander began her career writing stage plays in New Zealand[9] and almost left the industry to apply for medical school after receiving multiple rejections for short film funding.
[18] On 21 January 2021, ViacomCBS International named Alexander as the lead writer for its development of a television series about the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
[19][20] Titled "Artemisia", the series is also being produced by former ViacomCBS International Studios UK managing director Jill Offman and Pan's Labyrinth producer Frida Torresblanco, who said the development "will be a contemporary feminist piece that is at once provocative and transgressive, invoking the spirit of our present moment in an eloquent and elegant way”.