OUR TEAM

MAURY STERLING

I've been telling stories since I was seven years old. I'm still finding new ways to do it.

I grew up in Mill Valley, California, and trained at UCLA, Circle in the Square, and ACT before becoming a founding member of Buffalo Nights, one of Los Angeles's most respected theater companies. On screen, I've built a career defined by complex, memorable characters — most notably Max Piotrowski on Showtime's Homeland, a role that earned the show a front-page feature in the Wall Street Journal. My film, television, and voice credits include Smokin' Aces, Coherence, Batman: Hush, Suits, Extant, Interior Chinatown, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Star Trek Khan, [Star Wars] Knights of the Old Republic, among many others.

In recent years, I've expanded my creative life to include writing and producing — most recently executive producing and starring in LITTLE IDEA's feature film Baby Love, which took home Best Narrative Feature at the 2026 Santa Monica Film Festival. It's the kind of project that only happens when someone is all-in: creatively, personally, and as a partner in every sense of the word.

I co-founded LITTLE IDEA with my wife, filmmaker and producer Alexis Boozer Sterling, around a shared conviction that stories work best when they're honest — and that the best ones have a way of finding the people who need them most.

ALEXIS BOOZER STERLING

I believe the best stories are the ones that close the distance between people.

I'm a creative executive, producer, and storyteller with two decades of work across theatre, film, documentary, VR, animation, and brand content. My career has taken me places I couldn't have planned: Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Fringe, indie sets and award-winning immersive worlds, and most recently a long chapter at Mattel, where I led creative for the Hot Wheels YouTube ecosystem — growing it to over a billion views, earning a Silver Telly Award, and launching the brand's first adult auto-enthusiast channel from scratch. I'm a Stanford drama graduate, an Emmy and Lumiere Award winner, and a member of SAG-AFTRA and the DGA.

What I've learned across it all is that scale doesn't have to be the enemy of the soul. The best franchise content, the best documentary, the best branded experience — they all work for the same reason: someone found the real story and refused to let go of it. That's the job I show up to do, whatever the format, whatever the audience.

LITTLE IDEA is the company I built with my husband, actor Maury Sterling, to do that work on our own terms — championing underrepresented voices, celebrating the texture of ordinary human experience, and making things we'd want to watch ourselves.