JOE TOWER is a screenwriter and content manager specialized in entertainment marketing and developmental editing. He taught creative writing at Columbia College, was the Associate Editor for F Magazine, and founded the renowned Chicago literary series, Readings Under the Influence.

As a producer for Hatbeard Company, he created long-time Los Angeles storytelling series, Tales Of Our Folly, as well as multiple podcasts, and helped found the theater company Barker Room Rep with director Mark Sitko.

He’s written dozens of commercials, TV pitches, and is a published interviewer, essayist, and cultural critic.

Over the course of his career, Daytime Emmy® nominee ALEXANDER GRADET has created award-winning graphics, music, lyrics, screenplays, stage-plays, comic books, commercials, promos and branding content for Blue Sky Studios, DC Comics, Mighty Atomic Industries, The Second City, and The American Museum of Natural History.

A Baltimore native and lapsed New Yorker, he lives in Southern California’s beautiful San Fernando Valley, with his wife, son, and dog.