Alex Epstein

Alex Epstein was born on Jan 26, 1963 in USA. Alex Epstein's big-screen debut came with Bon Cop Bad Cop directed by Erik Canuel in 2006.

A dual Canadian / US citizen, Alex Epstein grew up in New York City. He graduated Yale in 1985 in Computer Science and English, magna cum laude. He went to UCLA for his MFA in filmmaking.After a decade in LA working as a development executive for independent production companies, he moved to Montreal to become a professional film and television writer. His first book, Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made (Henry Holt: New York 2002), came out of his experiences in development. His second book, Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box (Henry Holt: New York), came out in 2006, and his first novel, The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan le Fay (Tradewind: Vancouver), came out in 2010.Epstein co-created a comic drama series, Naked Josh (2004-2006), for Showcase and Oxygen, and was one of the writers on the hit Canadian film Bon Cop / Bad Cop (2006).Moving to video games in 2011, he is the Narrative Director at Compulsion Games, where he shipped Contrast (2013) and We Happy Few (2018-2019).Epstein lives in Montreal with his wife Lisa Hunter, a video game writer and screenwriter, and his daughter.