Background
Alex Pugsley was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The son of R. N. and J. A. Pugsley.
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Alex Pugsley was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The son of R. N. and J. A. Pugsley.
Pugsley received his Master of Arts from the University of Toronto.
Alex Pugsley works as a film-maker and screenwriter. His short films and movies include "Dirty Singles", "Ghetto of Cool People", "Fidelio".
Pugsley is also the co-author of the novel "Kay Darling" and his fiction has appeared in Brick, Descant, the Queen Street Quarterly, and other periodicals.
As a screenwriter or story editor, he has worked on over 170 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Scott Thompson, Mark McKinney, Leslie Nielsen, Dan Aykroyd, Sean Cullen, Gavin Crawford, and Michael Cera, and for such series as "The Eleventh Hour", "Life With Derek", "Heartland", "G-Spot", and "The Gavin Crawford Show".
Pugsley also co-created the TV series Baxter, premiering in 2010 on The Family Channel.
Pugsley's work has been nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards, Gemini Awards, Hot Docs Awards, Director's Guild of Canada Awards, and National Magazine Awards.
His movie "Dirty Singles" was an official selection of the 2014 Calgary International Film Festival and was nominated for best Canadian feature at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Pugsley won the $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada-McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for the short story Crisis on Earth-X in 2012.
