Biography
Rick Alexander is an award-winning Latinx screenwriter and producer long focused on IP-based genre entertainment franchises for theatrical distributors, cable and broadcast networks, and streaming services, having contributed to the early development of the hit Netflix animated series, "Stranger Things: Tales From ’85." In a past professional life, Alexander held senior entertainment company posts as a development and production executive in the theatrical feature film and scripted series television arenas.
Emphasizing indelible characters, worldbuilding, and universe creation, experienced writer-producer Alexander originates episodic programming and feature-length motion picture projects across traditional and emerging platforms for live action and animated content. Via his eponymous Alexander Content banner, Alexander has provided screenwriting and/or producing services for Disney, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Dimension, New Line, Canal Plus, Hyde Park Entertainment, Imagenation, Spelling Television, Syfy, Lifetime, ABC, Legendary Entertainment, EuropaCorp Television, Fremantle, Village Roadshow Television, 87Eleven Entertainment and Netflix, and he has developed scripted entertainment content based upon pre-awareness IP by a host of internationally acclaimed comic book creators including Colleen Doran, Howard Chaykin, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, and Kurt Busiek.
Alexander has a successful track record setting up IP-based projects for film and television development such as Marvel Comics' "Cloak And Dagger," Image Comics' "Astro City," "Casanova" and "Screamland," Malibu Comics' "Power & Glory," Robert E. Howard's "Conan, The Barbarian," Rudy Ray Moore's "Dolemite," and more at a variety of studios. Alexander counts himself fortunate to have worked with talents such as The Wachowskis, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Rodriguez, John Milius, Billy Ray, Darren Bousman, Leslie Bohem, Howard A. Rodman, Stephen Metcalfe, Robbie Fox, Jonathan Gems, Marc Moss, John Masius, Nick Castle, John Steppling, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Alan McElroy, John Fasano, Ian Abrams, Blake Snyder, John Herzfeld, Camp & Thompson, Speakman & Galvin, Ken Nolan, Alex Litvak, Donnelly & Oppenheimer, Butcher & Cornwell, Boaz Yakin, Whoopi Goldberg, Zach Braff, Timur Bekmanbetov, Tim Miller, Chad Stahelski and the Duffer Brothers.
Having written thirty of its first eighty-eight episodes, Alexander won multiple awards for his work as a writer-producer on Seasons One through Four of Executive Producer Whoopi Goldberg's hit Lifetime Television drama from Sony Studios, "Strong Medicine."
Prior to launching Alexander Content in May of 2000, Alexander had served as Vice President of Production at Adelson Entertainment and held various positions at that venture's predecessor, Adelson / Baumgarten Productions / Management. Alexander's tenure working for producing partners Gary Adelson and Craig Baumgarten saw him involved in the development and production of broadcast network television projects "The Fifth Corner and Rolling Thunder" (NBC), "Summer" (CBS), and "Posse" (FBC), and the feature films "Hook," "Universal Soldier," "Blank Check," "Nowhere To Run," "It Could Happen To You," and "Jade."
Alexander was a literary agent trainee at the Broder, Kurland, Webb, Uffner Agency, and prior to that, served as a Story Analyst at Tri Star Pictures, after spending a year learning the theatrical distribution business servicing feature film releases from Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, and Weintraub Entertainment Group (WEG) at Triumph Releasing, a division of Sony. Alexander began his career in the entertainment industry as a Development Assistant at Aaron Spelling Productions, where he was to return some years later to write an ABC network pilot script.
A native New Yorker born to Cuban immigrants, Alexander is a proud graduate of the city's famed Bronx High School of Science, earned a bachelor's degree in Drama on scholarship at the University of Southern California, and is a member of the Television Academy. He and his wife, the writer, director, author, and speaker Valerie Alexander, and their rescued German Shepherd, the redoubtable (yet somewhat goofy) Vegas Baby Alexander, split their time between Atlanta and Los Angeles.
