Alex Stapleton

Alex Stapleton is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker.  Alex’s most recent film about baseball legend Reggie Jackson was released on Amazon Prime to critical acclaim including a Critics Choice nomination, and her next film God Save Texas about the energy industry’s impact on the African-American community told through the experience of her own family will be released on HBO next year.  In the past, she has been nominated as showrunner and executive producer for both a GLAAD and Gotham award for Pride (FX), a six-part docu-series chronicling the American LGBTQ+ Civil Rights movement dating back to the 1950’s. Other directing and producing credits include Hello Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea (Netflix), Shut Up & Dribble (Showtime), and The Playbook (Netflix). Stapleton made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed film, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (A&E), featuring Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, and Ron Howard, which premiered at Sundance and competed at top festivals including Cannes and the New York Film Festival.   

Projects to be released next year include: a limited television series for HBO that shines new light on one of one of the most prominent racial justice cases of the 1980s; a four-part series on women in hip hop; and a music meets technology docuseries for Paramount+ based on the book How Music Got Free.

In 2021, Stapleton launched the company House of NonFiction as a platform to develop and produce film, television and other storytelling and experiential formats. As a proud member of the Directors Guild, she currently serves on the National Board and is also co-chair of the recently formed Documentary Committee. 

 

Awards & Nominations

  • International Documentary Award Nominee, Reggie (Amazon Prime), 2023

  • Critics Choice Award Nominee, Reggie (Amazon Prime), 2023

  • Gotham Award Nominee, Pride (FX), 2021

  • NAACP Award Nominee, Shut Up and Dribble (Showtime), 2019

  • Emmy Award Winner, SoCal Connected (PBS/KCET), 2017

  • Camera d'Or Award Nominee, Corman's World (A&E), 2012