Yo chat, I’m Alex Schaeffer: a multi-hyphenated brand storyteller and creative leader with over 15 years of experience crafting impactful work for global brands, currently based in Los Angeles.

As a high impact Freelance Creative Director, I operate with a player-coach mentality. Comfortable directing shoots, leading pitches, pitching in, growing creatives, shepherding work that works, and making some noise. Available for both creative direction and copywriting support. My passion is granting vision and voice(s) to powerfully expressive projects. My background is in platform-based solutions for brands with a focus on cultural disruption.

Most recently I was creatively dedicated to the future of cannabis technology in-house at Puffco. There I concepted, wrote, directed, and edited high craft work for social, retail, experiential, and ooh environments to push the global hash agenda with a small, nimble team.

Prior to that I professionally freelanced for 4 years directly supporting client stakeholders and agency leaders on a wide range of verticals:

Clients: [Amazon Studios / Ben & Jerry's / Casamigos / DirecTV / Discover / Google / HBO / Marvel / Meta / The NBA / Netflix / Newman’s Own / Samsung / Serato / Smirnoff / Xbox / YouTube]

Shops: [180LA / 215 McCann / 3AM / Bakery / Conscious Minds / DCX Growth Accelerator / Decoded / Giant Spoon / Mustache / Publicis / Random Folk / SS+K / TBWA\Chiat\Day / The Many / Wunderman Thompson]

Before that I was staying billable (full-time), winning new business, and making headline-generating work at:

BBH LA <- TBWA Media Arts Lab <- 72andSunny <- The Barbarian Group <- Translation NY <- JWT NY

Moonlighting as a chameleonic voice actor, I work across commercial, animation, and interactive mediums. Hear me on projects for Cava, Citizen Watches, DC, EEP, Garena, Genshin Impact, Microsoft, Molson Coors, Rula, Tradewind, and more.

I also develop original and branded content to stand out in a noisy world as Co-Founder of MANIACS.

And for over two decades I’ve been a Magician. I go by Alexander The Pretty Good: an above average astonishment enabler and magician member of The Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood. My practice of the conjuring arts informs all of my creative endeavors. The insatiable curiosity for new methodologies is the cornerstone of my expressions of creativity in all arenas of life. Magic is real.

So enough about me, let’s talk about making something incredibly dope together.

-A.

Creative Director | Voice Actor | Wizard | Writer