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Filmmaker Spike Lee has partnered with The Gersh Agency to create the Spike Fellows Program, a fellowship to support students at the Atlanta University Center Consortium which consists of three Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta…

EXCLUSIVE: Bart Walker, one of the last star ICM agents not going to CAA, has joined Gersh as Senior Partner in the New York office. Walker, who decided not to stay when CAA acquired that agency, will continue to represent his esteemed clients in film, television and theater including Oscar nominees/winners such as…

South African filmmaker Talia Smith has signed with The Gersh Agency for representation. Her short film Umama won Gold at The Student Academy Awards and will be released on Omeleto at the end of the month. Her next untitled project is a story inspired by the 1976 Sowetto Uprising. She is completing the script which…

Director Alexandra LaRoche has signed with The Gersh Agency for representation. With more than 20 years in the business, she has worked on such shows as Legends of Tomorrow, MacGyver, Magnum PI and the upcoming movie based on the VC Andrews book, Pearl in the Mist. Prior to the pandemic, she had spent a lot of her…

Leslie Iwerks, an Academy Award and Emmy nominated director, writer and producer, has signed with The Gersh Agency for representation both individually and for Iwerks & Co., her multimedia production company. Iwerks' six-part docuseries, The Imagineering Story, debuted on Disney+ on November 12. Narrated by Angela…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gersh Agency has signed acclaimed Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid, whose latest feature Synonyms (Synonymes) won Berlin’s Golden Bear for Best Film earlier this year. Well-received French and Hebrew-language drama Synonyms, which had its North American premiere at TIFF last night, follows a young…

Gersh partner Nick Collins has been promoted to Co-Head of Talent. Collins started at the agency an assistant in 2005, working for Bob Gersh. He was promoted to agent in 2007 and was named partner in 2015. Collins has built a formidable roster of clients that includes Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney; Emmy winner…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Fox Studios head Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium Entertainment has optioned Bennett Fisher’s screenplay adaptation for Damascus. His award-winning play was the second prize winner in the Samuel Goldwyn screenplay contest, a finalist in the O’Neill Conference, and has won numerous other honors. Mechanic (H…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Pamela Gray has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. The co-writer of Megan Leavey also just adapted Liane Moriarty's novel The Husband's Secret which is set to star Blake Lively for CBS Films. Gray is best known for writing films such as Conviction, Music Of The Heart, and A Walk…

Alyssa Schimel has joined Kovert Creative, where she’ll focus on the Programming and Content business, with clients including Jimmy Kimmel Live, The com, Fatherly.com, OBB Pictures, author Brad Meltzer and WeVillage. Schimel was the in-house publicist for Kimmel and previously worked at PMK*BNC and…

Actor-director Joel David Moore has signed with The Gersh Agency. Best known for his role in James Cameron’s Avatar, Moore’s other film credits include the films DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Art School Confidential, Oliver Stone’s Savages, the biopic CBGB, and Hatchet. His television credits include a 5-year arc…

Bill Gersh has just been made agent at The Gersh Agency, which makes him another of the third generation of those in his family that have gone into the talent representation business. He will be an agent in the Alternative and Digital Packaging Division. Started in the 1940s, The Gersh Agency is the oldest agency in…