Alexander Karpovsky (born September 23, 1975) is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and Craig Petrosian on the Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming.

Alex Karpovsky was raised in Newton, Massachusetts.^[1] He earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University before receiving a master's degree in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford.^[1][2]

His debut feature, The Hole Story, earned him a slot in Filmmaker magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include Woodpecker, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, Rubberneck, and Red Flag,^[3] the latter two of which were released as a double feature at New York City's Lincoln Center Theater.^[4] In addition to these features, Karpovsky has directed numerous episodes of TV shows as well as commercials and music videos.

As an actor, he played Ray Ploshansky in the HBO comedy series Girls, and also appeared in the Coen Brothers' films Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, was a series regular on Amazon's Homecoming, played Dr. Seiderman on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and had a leading role in the Peacock limited series, Angelyne.^[5]

As a writer and producer, he has developed projects at Amazon, Comedy Central, FX, TBS, and Hulu.

As a voice performer, Karpovsky's work has appeared in Selected Shorts, The Paris Review, Modern Love, n+1, Grand Theft Auto IV, and This American Life.

Karpovsky also collaborates with graphic designer Teddy Blanks. Together they work as Spielbergs, and created, wrote and directed the 2019 miniseries Oh Jerome, No, starring Mamoudou Athie.^[6]