Stories told with honesty and care. People feel the difference.
THE COMPANYSimpatico Media is an independent storytelling company built on a simple idea: when a story is told with honesty and care, people feel it. We work across film, television, audio and new media. We develop original stories, adapt true ones, and put the right people around them. Simpatico means kindred, and that’s how we work: in step with the creators, partners and audiences we make things for.
Alvin Cowan, Founder
Alvin Cowan grew up in Texas and played quarterback at Yale, and has spent more than twenty years in Hollywood as an actor, writer and producer. On screen, he has appeared in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, HBO’s Westworld, NBC’s This Is Us and AMC’s Better Call Saul.
Behind the camera, he builds stories from the ground up. In audio, he created, wrote and produced the documentary podcast American Coyote: The Legend of Elden Kidd, was showrunner, writer and producer of the Audible Original Once Removed: An American Family Reunion, and produced the true-crime series Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story for Dear Media and Killing Dad: The Crystal Howell Story for AudioUp. On screen, he wrote, directed and produced Raft of Stars, in which he stars opposite Rob Morgan, and Rewind, now out to festivals. Along the way he has worked with companies including The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Netflix, Imperative Entertainment and The Tannenbaum Company, and he is currently in development on a project with BYU Radio.
He writes about the craft and business of storytelling on Substack.
