Alex Stapleton
Alex is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker for film and television. She is currently directing a project for HBO entitled God Save Texas (Jigsaw Productions). Her episode of The Playbook (SpringHill), a new show for Netflix aired this Fall, and over the past two years Alex also had the privilege to show run a six-part, docu-series for FX called Pride, which chronicles the American LGBTQ+ Civil Rights movement.
Other recent credits include Hello Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea (Netflix/Conde Nast) and Shut Up & Dribble (Showtime/SpringHill). Stapleton made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed film, Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (A&E), starring Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard and competed at top festivals like Cannes, the New York Film Festival and Sundance.
Awards
NAACP Award Nominee, Shut Up and Dribble (Showtime/Springhill Entertainment), 2019
Emmy Award Winner, SoCal Connected (PBS/KCET), 2017
Camera d’Or Award Nominee, Corman’s World (A&E), 2012