Hi, I’m Alex Eaton.

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I was born in Smyrna, Georgia, in a house where stories were currency. My dad owned a comic book store, so I grew up surrounded by heroes, origin stories, and long boxes of worlds waiting to be opened. Other kids had bedtime stories. I had mythology in stapled panels and serialized cliffhangers. I didn’t know it then, but I was being trained.

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I acted in high school and loved being onstage, but even then I was more entranced by the words on the page than the spotlight itself. I wanted to understand how stories worked, why certain lines landed, why certain moments lingered. That curiosity followed me to college.

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I started out studying Political Science, convinced I would change the world through policy. That dream shifted pretty quickly once I realized I might be better off teaching salsa at the YMCA (my dancing is more "giraffe on ice" than graceful, for what it’s worth). So I pivoted to English Literature and moved to Nashville in 2021. That decision quietly reshaped my life.

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In the same year, I got my first real opportunity in film at Kingdom Story Company. What began as an internship turned into long days of script coverage, story notes, and eventually sitting in development meetings with creatives across the country. In 2022, I stepped onto my first major film set as a Writers Assistant and Assistant to Directors Brent McCorkle and Jon Erwin. Being that close to the process and watching words transform into images cemented something for me. This was not a phase. This was home.

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When I returned to Nashville, I joined The Wonder Project as a Junior Story Assistant. I helped shape a content slate, contributed to revisions, and learned how collaborative and fragile story development really is. But I also knew I was not finished growing. I went back to Lipscomb University and graduated in 2024, wanting to complete what I had started with a clearer sense of purpose.

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Most recently, I interned at Assembly Studios in Atlanta, where I had the rare chance to actually produce a short film from the ground up. That experience shifted my understanding of storytelling yet again. Development is imagination. Production is execution. Bridging the two is where I feel most alive. Since then, I have produced two more short films, and I am just getting started.

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I am 24. I am still learning. But I know this much. I was raised on stories, shaped by them, and I want to spend my life building them carefully, collaboratively, and with the hope that somewhere, someone opens one and feels a little less alone.

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“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”

― Steven Spielberg