Alex Stapleton

Alex Stapleton is an American director, showrunner, and executive producer of documentary feature films and unscripted television.

[1][2] The documentary includes interviews with Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, and Ron Howard among others.

The project follows Chelsea Handler as she reexamines the concept of white privilege and its effect on American culture.

[5] For the 2020 Netflix docuseries, The Playbook, Stapleton directed an episode on legendary coach Jill Ellis about the rules she lives by to find success on and off the field.

Stapleton executive produced and showran the FX documentary television miniseries Pride, which followed the fight for LGBT rights in the United States decade-by-decade from the 1950's through the 2000's.