Alistair A. Vogan is a Canadian author, an award-winning Q1-published AI, robotics and cognition researcher, and an award-winning feature film story development specialist whose career in storytelling stretches three decades. Highlights include time spent on Parliament Hill working with (then) Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, and in feature film story development with Academy Award nominee and Saturday Night Live staff writer Adam McKay, Canadian comedy legend / director Bruce McCulloch and Susan Cavan with the Tom Green production ‘Stealing Harvard’. In addition to being a contributing writer for the wildly popular The Kids In The Hall North American Reunion Tour, 'Same Guys, Different Dresses', and a produced playwright ('The Crash of Twenty-Nine'), he is a professional screenwriter and script doctor (Imagine Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., etc) helping creatives achieve international recognition through The ABC New Talent Development Scholarship Grant Program, the Slamdance Screenplay Competition, Bravo!Fact, the Canadian Comedy Awards, the Ontario Media Development Corporation...
Alistair is the author of The Ivan Von Noshrilgram Foundation classic…
HOW TO LOSE YOUR VOICE WITHOUT SCREAMING (Volume One).
He is presently developing the tentatively titled
PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF (UN)COMFORTABLE
a multi-year research project exploring the historical intersection of energy, biological systems and innovations that expand and limit our capacities, from the sun’s core to the eukaryote revolution and multicellular lifeforms, to the cities and cognitive models we inhabit.
Alistair's most recent work of fiction
MY HIDEOUS BLIND SPOT: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
was released in the summer of 2019 through 'The Foundation'. Set in the late 90s, MY HIDEOUS BLIND SPOT: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION highlights the Canadian Gen X experience of turning thirty as its most valued principles and Life’s expectations came into razor-sharp focus. Part homage to that period and those people, part biting/loving satire, you will likely recognize yourself and others in this work. (For this work there are two versions, the international edition, and the Middle Eastern edition. Both are available worldwide.)
His second work of fiction, published in 2016 through 'The Foundation', is the hysterical…
BY DEGREES THE GENTLEST ASININE EXPRESSION.
This satirical collection, written in the spirit of David Sedaris, Mark Twain, and Woody Allen, captures the lives of two families across six decades and four continents and examines the unspoken connection between the Stockholm Syndrome and the family bond.
Alistair lives with his wife and daughters in the United Arab Emirates where he is a filmmaking specialist and researcher at University College and the AI and Robotics Lab at United Arab Emirates University. His summers are spent "just about anywhere that drops below 53 degrees Celsius".
Alistair was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1966.
