producer. sound designer. songwriter. storyteller. sound engineer.

pizza enthusiast. experienced fire breather. world record holder. gardening. chicken husbandry. bicycling. outdoors enthusiast. first runner-up in national amateur dodgeball association championships. 

Hello! I’m Alan. I am a producer and music director for Terrestrials, a program of WNYC’s award winning Radiolab. I’ve served as technical director for podcast and radio projects at New York Public Radio and have made audio for BBC, Radiolab, University of Virginia, WNYC Studios, WQXR, WTJU, WQRT, Yo-Yo Ma, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and The Brown Arts Institute. I’m honored to have projects win 2 Black Podcasting Awards, a Webby Award, and inclusion in Pushkin’s Best Audio Story Telling 2022.

After spending my early career touring the US in a punk/indie band (Victory Records) I studied social work and began a career in childhood development. Before long, creative pursuits got the best of me. I am a founding member of Know No Stranger, a friendly performing arts collective that has been described as “Sesame Street but for adults… but also for kids.” In addition to writing scripts and building larger-than-life puppets, I’ve created countless musical compositions and soundscapes for stage and video, including a musical space odyssey commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I moved to Charlottesville Virginia to take a role as executive director of an expansive community arts nonprofit facilitating after-school programs, public art, a community gallery and The Charlottesville Mural Project. I also served as "Director of Fun" for our chapter of CreativeMornings, the worlds largest face-to-face creative community. All the while, I’ve been freelancing sound design and music composition. In 2022 I teamed up with Radiolab host Lulu Miller to help launch Radiolab Presents: Terrestrials.