Alec Wisdom

Writer & Director

Bio

I found storytelling through music. As a producer within a community of like-minded artists I learned why strong relationships and unified technical systems allow creative work to flourish. I was born and raised in Texas and the way I see and tell stories remains rooted in its people and landscapes and paradoxes.

After surviving two near-death experiences while commuting to work on Yellowstone: 1883, I knew I needed to direct, which meant I needed to write. Over the following two years I survived two additional near-death experiences. The threat of death stopped feeling occasional and became imminent. I lived with PTSD for years and addressed it deliberately with EMDR and the help of a steady community. Writing stabilized my attention and gave form to what I endured. That practice matured into finished stories grounded in my lived experience, set in my home state, holding a mirror up to the people who inhabit it.

My work explores the nature of relationality and being through human compulsion and fractured families. I am interested in the continual formation of inner life and the recursive patterns people live within without seeing.