Brillstein Entertainment Partners has hired two new managers, Andy Farag and Isabel Frost, and promoted Natalie Covault and Jackie Gardner to Manager in the ongoing expansion of the company's comedy, talent and literary representation business. Farag joins Brillstein from CAA, where he started as an assistant and…

Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted the official Presidential portrait of Barack Obama, has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for representation in film, TV, unscripted, and endorsements. Wiley will work closely with Brillstein to identify directing opportunities, option books, produce, develop his own…

Innovative Artists veteran Ken Lee is leaving the talent agency to become a manager. He will be joining Brillstein Entertainment Partners in March, working out of the company’s New York office in Tribeca. "Ken has a great eye for developing talent and has cultivated a fantastic network in the New York creative…

Elizabeth Cantillon's The Cantillon Company has teamed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop a drama series adaptation of the book I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, by Washington Post correspondent Souad Mekhennet, based on her life and career as a German-born Muslim…

W. Kamau Bell, host of the Emmy-winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America, has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners. In United Shades, Bell travels around the U.S. exploring different subcultures, interviewing everyone from Ku Klux Klan members to spring breakers to prison inmates, bringing his unique…

Brillstein Entertainment Partners is bolstering its digital presence, hiring digital media veteran Seth Jacobs as a Manager. In his new role, Jacobs will help guide the company's rapidly growing digital practice. Prior to joining Brillstein, Jacobs spent three and a half years as an early executive and Vice President…

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood is taking a big bite of Brave Wilderness, with Brillstein Entertainment Partners inking a management deal with red-hot YouTube wildlife channel and its star Coyote Peterson. Brave Wilderness, formed by Peterson and business partner Mark Laivins, is behind such shows as Breaking Trail, which won an…

Brad Weston's recently launched Makeready has nabbed the rights to bestselling author Robert Kurson's upcoming book Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon, to adapt for television. The nonfiction book will be published by Random House in spring 2018. Brill…

A group of 180 former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York have sent a bipartisan letter to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein asking that the Department Of Justice appoint a special counsel “to oversee the FBI’s continuing investigation of Russian interference…

Former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler and Brillstein Entertainment Partners chairman and CEO Jon Liebman have been elected to the board of directors at the National Archives Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the federal National Archives and Records Administration. Wheeler, a former foundation board member, exited as…

Francesca Eastwood has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for management. Eastwood starred in the SXSW festival film M.F.A. and was the lead actress in Outlaws and Angels alongside Luke Wilson and Chad Michael Murray, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. She’ll next be seen in a starring role…

Damien Power, the writer/director of the indie thriller Killing Ground which premiered at Sundance, has signed with CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. The film, which was a powerful directorial debut for the Aussie, bowed at this year's film festival during the Midnight Section and then was acquired by IFC…