Английская Википедия:Alex Westerman

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Alexander Westerman is an American creative director based in Los Angeles.

He began his career as an art director in 1991. Where he studied at Ithaca College and New York University. He is an executive creative director at Opus Los Angeles In 2016.

Career

Westerman started out as a prop master and art director. Westerman's experience ranges from television to movie and theater productions. He was an executive in charge of development at Bona Dea Productions, a production executive of The Weissberger Theatre Group, and an assistant to producer Fred Zollo for one year. In 2000, Westerman left his job at Disney to found a start-up called RadicalZoo. RadicalZoo was to be a destination for independent filmmakers.

Radical Zoo folded in 2003. Westerman joined the staff of Nickelodeon in 2004 and went on to create sites and applications for the company. Westerman lead the team that created Nicktropolis the virtual world. In 2009, Westerman left Nickelodeon to become Creative Director Worldwide Marketing and Communications for Mattel.

In 2007-2008, Westerman created an Adobe Air application as an Adobe launch partner. The application was the first game to be created using the air runtime. The game allows users to engage in a scavenger hunt, collecting jig saw puzzle pieces and assemble and solve the puzzle offline in the Air runtime.

In 2012 Westerman joined Guthy-Renker as head of digital creative.

In 2015 Westerman joined Spark Networks as head of creative.

Westerman is also the publisher of an amusement park and roller coaster website.

Personal life

In the spring of 2014, Westerman married David Gleason, senior vice president of research for E! and Esquire Network.

Early work

Westerman's background is diverse. He was classically trained as a ballet dancer studying at The School of American Ballet in New York. While attending Ithaca College, he choreographed ballets for the dance school, two of which were critical successes: La Belle et la Bete and Flight of Icarus. In 1989 Burt Supree of the Village Voice reviewed Westerman's performance and choreography as a member of The Saga Dance Company.

At Nickelodeon Westerman served as Production Director of Nicktropolis. Nicktropolis is Nickelodeon's massively multiplayer online game and massively multiplayer online role-playing game that is part of Nick.com.

Transformers Game - A Transformers Game and area, based on the popular Hasbro toys, is being developed. Teams will compete for Nickpoints and prizes. Game players will have to choose which team to join, evil DECEPTICONS or the noble AUTOBOTS? These two opposing teams will battle it out for control of the elusive Energon Cubes. The area will contain brand new rooms, features, and gameplay, this is sure to be the next evolution of games in Nicktropolis.

Involvement with REDCAT Theater

In 2017 Westerman accepted a position on the REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) COUNCIL having served as a Circle member from 2010-2017. As a council member Westerman has presented the following productions: Christiane Jatahy: What if they went to Moscow? The Wooster Group: THE B-SIDE: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons" A Record Album Interpretation, A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique), Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, The Room by Harold Pinter and The Town Hall Affair.

Awards for associated websites

• Webby Awards 2010 - Online Games - Mattel.com/games
• Webby Awards 2008 - Social Networking - Nicktropolis.com
• Webby Awards 2008 - People's Choice Best Youth Site - Nick.com
• Parents' Choice Award 2008 - Nicktropolis.com
• Parents' Choice Award 2008 - Nick.com
• Webby Award 2007 - People's Choice Best Youth Site - Nick.com
• In 2004, ThrillNetwork.com was named Forbes Summer 2004 Best of the Web Pick.

Selected projects

• Barbie
• Hot Wheels
• JDate
• Nicktropolis
• Nick.com
• NickMail
• Proactiv
• TurboNick

Selected theater and filmography

• Out of the Box (The Disney Channel: Season 1 and 2)
• Peroxide Passion (T. Michael Film)
• Hit and Runway (Lot 47 Films)
• Surprise (The NY Picture Company)
• Nickelodeon Pilot “BUS # 9” (MTV Networks)
• Frogs for Snakes (The Shooting Gallery)
• The President's Christmas Tree (Shochiku Entertainment)
• Hell's Kitchen (Kushner-Locke Company)
• The Substance of Fire (Miramax)
• Mississippi Burning (Orion Pictures)
• Oleanna (play) (Samuel Goldwyn)
• Naked in New York (New Line Cinema)
• Quiz Show (Hollywood Pictures)
• Broadway Bares VI - Less Is More

External links

• Official Website
• Шаблон:IMDb name