Alex Wroten is a Los Angeles-based, award-winning writer-director-composer with 20+ years of professional experience. His diverse portfolio of projects includes original films, musical scores and documentaries that have gained international acclaim.
Alex owns and operates Well Dang! Productions, serving as creator and producer on documentary and fiction shorts, features, and web series. The full-service production company’s films have been screened in festivals across the globe.
Equal parts storyteller and creative self-starter, Alex has written and directed dozens (and dozens) of features, shorts, and web series, and composed music for dozens of other projects over a 20 year film career. He is skilled in developing authentic, inventive narratives while driving budgets, removing roadblocks, managing talent and facilitating complex production schedules. Alex's most recent short film, "Endangered," featuring Cheri Oteri and Camryn Manheim, is currently playing the film festival circuit; "Endangered" has been an official selection in 40 film festivals (and counting).
As a composer, Alex’s expertise spans various styles, instruments, outboard gear and creative technology platforms. The New York Times called his “Mosaic” percussion duet, which was commissioned and performed by Meehan/Perkins Duo at Constellation Chicago in 2016, an “absorbing premiere” that “glistens as it seems to rotate, less developing than slowly revealing more of its secrets.”
Alex earned a Master’s in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College on a full scholarship, as well as a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from the University of South Carolina. He was also selected for a National Science Foundation grant-funded fellowship to compose music for USC NanoCenter, and earned multiple awards for his submissions to USC’s GotFilm? contest.
Currently splitting time between LA and Asheville, NC, Alex is busy wrapping up a documentary feature about musician Shawn Phillips.
“Endangered” has been featured at 40 film festivals (and counting) around the world since 2020, including wins for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Script, and Best Short Film.
“Beach Claw” was featured at 18 film festivals internationally in 2021.
“The Mismanagement of Medwin Monroe” (directed by Alex) screened at 16 film festivals across the USA, 5 of which awarded it “Best Series”!
Cross Doubles, Panopto, and Legit Married, three films featuring Alex’s original music, have been sweeping it up in their ongoing festival runs!
Meehan/Perkins duo’s “absorbing” premiere of Alex’s percussion duet “Mosaic” at the 2016 Chicago Frequency Festival was reviewed in the New York Times
Alex in Action
