Douglas Alden '88
/Undergraduate Affiliations
Department: Politics
Arts-related Groups: Student plays
Bio
Douglas Alden (née Warshaw) is a television programmer, producer, writer and director, who has won 3 Emmy Awards and received 12 Emmy nominations for his documentary and long-form feature work at ESPN, NBC Olympics, ABC Sports, and Classic Sports Network (now ESPN Classic).
In the digital world since 2000, Douglas has co-founded and repositioned companies, and created innovative marketing campaigns that garnered both press and audience impressions for HBO (“The Sopranos” and HBO Boxing), Showtime (multiple original series), E! Online, Victoria’s Secret, and Gagosian Gallery, among others. His professional service groups created and launched the first interactive video applications used by HBO and Showtime.
In 2005 Douglas co-founded Motionbox.com, a personal video-sharing service and community website in the forefront of the user-generated video revolution. The company was sold to HP in 2010 Douglas is the Creator, Writer & Executive Producer of ESPN’s serialized, “1927: The Diary of Myles Thomas," a historical novel published in 2016 and described by many as, "Ball Four meets the Great Gatsby."
Links and Social Media
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasalden
I would like to share my expertise with:
Alumni
Students
I would like to:
Speak on a panel
Conduct a workshop
Share advice via phone or coffee chat