Education
University of Warwick.
University of Warwick.
He started acting at the age of ten appearing on stage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as young Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations. At the age of twelve he was cast as Tolly in the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of Lucy M. Boston"s The Children of Green Knowe. He went on to appear alongside Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour and Tim Healy in the situation comedy A Kind of Living.
After the tour he wrote and acted in the situation comedy pilot The Secret Life of a Nebbish for TAPS. He went on to work as Production Manager on Pat Kelman"s multi award winning début feature Encounters.
The following year Alec worked with Superman producer Ilya Salkind on Young Alexander shot on location in Egypt and Greece. He later worked as Lincolnshire Producer on the comedy feature Back in Business shot at Pinewood Studios and Twickenham Studios.
Coincidentally Alec was at both the National Youth Theatre and the University of Warwick with Dennis Waterman"s daughter Hannah Waterman. In 2005 he produced the pilot episode of the sitcom Number Skillz through his company Kayak Productions starring Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras), Karen Taylor (The Sketch Show), Tony MacMurray (The Office, Last Chancers) and Nicola Cotter (The Office).
In 2007 he directed two short films for filmaka.com Ginger and SMS Kiss and the educational Digital Video Disc Simply Pain.
Most recently he was commissioned by filmaka.com to write, produce and act in Christie. A comedy series for the internet. He went on to write the comedy short Blackroom Management: On tour and the short films American Dream and Elephant Boy.
The Christie Series, Blackroom Management and American Dream were directed by Azi Rahman
Alec currently works as Producer for Spring Fashion Film at Spring Studios.