About

alec-westlaI’d like to just say “I’m creative” but that just doesn’t quite cut it, does it?

I’m an online marketing strategist and a comedy writer, all wrapped up in one. I’m a comedy writer.  A web site designer.  A marketing strategist.  An online video producer.

I create stories, media, viral videos, TV scripts, blogs, and print media (often called “books”).

Related Work

I work with a couple of partners and therefore have a couple of business cards:

I co-founded Space Shank Media in 2006, a production company that creates online and television entertainment, including the award-winning Flipper Nation, a pilot concept for ABC, and the Battlestar Galactica parody web series My Roommate the Cylon.  We’re actively pitching new projects to broadcast TV and digital networks.

I’m a partner in McBeard Media, a social media and copywriting agency that works with the likes of Nokia.  We created the humor blog Historical Tweets, and its forthcoming spin-off book Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World, published by Villard/Random House.

I’m also a regular columnist covering online entertainment for Script Magazine, the monthly, nationally distributed trade and craft magazine for screenwriters (owned by Final Draft).

Background

I spent seven years at Pepperdine University, where I started as a web designer and ended up creating online marketing strategy, producing videos, copy writing, and emceeing a lot of live events.

During that time, I also worked as a freelance web designer; my most notable client was Mann Theatres, owner of the world-famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.