My So Called Life
Oscar winning movies, Emmy-nominated TV shows – Paul Alexander has watched them all. But occasionally he opens his laptop and does a bit of writing.
Do Not Resuscitate, the short animated pilot Paul co-wrote for Idea Hat productions recently won the World Animation Category at the 2024 AniMate (Australia Animated Film Festival) Awards…
…and you can check it out here.
His other current projects include the feature film script Big Gay Band (also for Idea Hat) and - with composers/lyricists Penny Lane and Glenn Keiles - he is writing a new musical, Keep Your Lipstick On.
His lockdown project, in collaboration with Kim Fuller, with whom he co-wrote four series of the very popular BBC Radio 4 sitcom The Castle was Comics Rebubbled, an anthology of comic pieces using repurposed vintage comics to make brand new stories – now available to buy on Amazon!
Other recent ventures include helping create some new stage material with (and for) Jasper Carrott and, also for the stage, helping develop Henry – A Killer New Musical based on the career of America’s first serial killer.
In collaboration with Thom Southerland and Irving Berlin(!) he created a brand new musical – The Smallest Show on Earth – which toured the UK at the end of 2015.
He co-wrote the BBC Radio 4 sitcom The Castle (four series) and wrote several episodes of the Disney Channel musical series Groove High. Other recent work TV includes BBC sitcom Life of Riley, and Nickelodeon’s Summer in Transylvania. He also co-created the Dreamworks Animation TV series Neighbors from Hell (for TBS).
He spent a year writing for Emmerdale and created, script-edited and wrote half the four-season 48 episode run of the family sitcom My Spy Family for Cartoon Network (their first ever live action sitcom). He also script-edited series two and three of John Sullivan’s The Green Green Grass.
His screenplays include Staggered, which he also co-produced (and which picked up three awards including Best Film at the 14th International Festival Du Comedie at Vevey, Switzerland) and Seeing Double (the S-Club movie!).
See full CV here.