My professional resume includes executive communications, documentary film making, television interview show host, public events MC, and research journalism – writing about often complex but meaningful scholarly investigations and translating those findings and their significance for a broad public.
This unpacking reveals an authentic route to educating the public, giving voice to the values of clients as well as employees. I have engaged with experts – journalists, scholars, artists and politicians – in public fora that are shrinking in number but needed more than ever. Whether on stage, on camera, or behind the scenes, connection brings insights across the table and around the globe, to audiences and industries that businesses need.
Threaded throughout has been creative work, informed by the experiences as much as a guide for my roles in academic leadership, speechwriting, interviewing and thoughtful strategic communications advice and counsel. Novels, plays, scripts, music, all arrive as naturally as the answer to the question: do you want to take part in a research expedition to the Gulf Stream? Whether making a concert documentary about a UNESCO conference on the future of the lagoon in the context of climate change or making sure a new building dedication audience feels a bit more than they expected from the dais, getting to the heart of the story has mapped my trajectory for what is fundamentally a writer’s life in our present moment.
Alan Flurry has produced dozens of video interviews with visiting artists, scholars, and journalists. In November 2011, he traveled to Venice with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra from the Hodgson School of Music to create a documentary of their performance at the opera house La Fenice. The one-hour documentary ARCO in Venice aired on the Georgia Public Broadcasting affiliate WUGA-TV in the fall of 2012. In June 2013, ARCO in Venice received a Merit Award from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.
Flurry produced and directed the documentary short Art Rosenbaum, Mural in Progress, which premiered at the AthFest film festival in 2013 and Roma Amor, which premiered at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2014.
Flurry’s original feature screenplay for The Next Paris was an official selection of the 2019 Beverly Hills Film Festival. His full length feature screenplay American Anthem was a selection at the 2025 BHFF. Flurry is married to the artist and writer Amy Flurry.
