Exclusive: Former Disney TV studio executive and CAA agent Elizabeth Newman has joined Literate as its first new partner since the television-focused boutique management and production company was launched in early 2018 by founding partners A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim.
With her background in television, publishing and book adaptations, Newman will manage a curated roster of film & TV writer/showrunners and will expand Literate’s business in representing screen rights for intellectual property creators, rightsholders, and estates. She also will work with authors, journalists, and playwrights transitioning to Hollywood.
This marks a return to representation for Newman who started her entertainment career at CAA. During her nearly 15-year tenure, she was a TV Literary & Media Rights agent, representing TV writer/creators, showrunners, producers, directors, and intellectual property, brokering major rights deals on behalf of bestselling authors such as Anne Rice and James Patterson.
At the end of 2019, Newman segued to the TV executive ranks,...
With her background in television, publishing and book adaptations, Newman will manage a curated roster of film & TV writer/showrunners and will expand Literate’s business in representing screen rights for intellectual property creators, rightsholders, and estates. She also will work with authors, journalists, and playwrights transitioning to Hollywood.
This marks a return to representation for Newman who started her entertainment career at CAA. During her nearly 15-year tenure, she was a TV Literary & Media Rights agent, representing TV writer/creators, showrunners, producers, directors, and intellectual property, brokering major rights deals on behalf of bestselling authors such as Anne Rice and James Patterson.
At the end of 2019, Newman segued to the TV executive ranks,...
- 9/19/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is not slowing down for its last turn at the Emmys. For its fifth and final season, the period comedy on Amazon Prime Video is finishing exactly at the same amount it started with, at 14 Emmy nominations, almost a fifth of the streamer’s 2023 total of 68. This is the longest-spanning season for the show, covering five decades in nine episodes detailing the title character’s ascending career and destructive personal life. Among its mentions are its bid for Best Comedy Series, an honor that it has received its entire run (it won in 2018), as well as major categories it has succeeded in years past. Read on for a closer look at “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s” 14 Emmy nominations.
The series is the second-most nominated comedy this year at the Emmys, behind only Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” with 21. Over on the ad-supported Freevee stream, “Jury Duty...
The series is the second-most nominated comedy this year at the Emmys, behind only Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” with 21. Over on the ad-supported Freevee stream, “Jury Duty...
- 8/26/2023
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
The same festival that helped launch the careers of Diane Paulus, Pam MacKinnon, John Rando, and over 300 other eminent directors returns Dec. 13–16 at Tbg Theatre. DirectorFest 2014, an evening of four short plays presented by the Drama League Directors Project fall fellows, promises to showcase the American theater’s foremost rising talents. Directors Elena Heyman, Michael Leibenluft, Caitlin Sullivan, and Michael Osinski will premiere new work from Callie Kimball, Clare Barron, Dipika Guha, and Sheila Callaghan, respectively, at the 31st annual one-act festival. “There is no better way to see the future of theatre than at DirectorFest,” said Gabriel Shanks, executive director of the Drama League, in a statement. “The imagination and daring of these four directors is incredibly inspiring; I can’t wait, once they inevitably make it to Broadway and beyond, to say that DirectorFest is where they began their journeys.” Shanks also pointed out all four of this...
- 11/17/2014
- backstage.com
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