- Nancy Nigrosh is a former a talent and literary agent at Innovative Artists and headed The Gersh Agency Lit Department, where she (as Nancy Blaylock, as she was then known),represented award winning writers and directors, including Kathryn Bigelow, and the writers of "Rain Man", "Salvador", "Short Cuts, "Beaches", and "Purple Rain".
Highlights while at Innovative included Stuart Beattie's original screenplay sale of "Collateral" and Beattie's subsequent hire to write "Pirates of the Caribbean"; author Mark & Virginia Spragg's "An Unfinished Life", directed by Lasse Halstrom and starring Robert Redford; and book author Amanda Brown's "Legally Blonde" as a Broadway musical. Her tenure at Innovative included representing Academy Award nominated writer Luke Davies ("Lion", "Beautiful Boy"),writer/director Leslye Headland ("Russian Doll") as well as co-charting the careers of talent clients who also were multiple award-winning writers, producers and directors: John Cameron Mitchell, Peter Bogdanovich, Julie Delpy, Mario Van Peebles, Joan Chen, Sean Astin, Chris Eyre, Isaiah Washington, with the legendary Sammo Hung among them.
She is a frequent contributor to Indiewire and an instructor for screenwriters and authors at the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension where she conducts workshops about how a writer's beliefs and behaviors influence the quality of their careers. Through her company, Literary Business, Nigrosh is a performance coach for writers and offers insider knowledge about how to attract a literary agent.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bruce Lewitt - Nancy Nigrosh is a former a talent and literary agent at Innovative Artists, and headed The Gersh Agency Lit Department, where (as Nancy Blaylock, as she was then known), she represented award winning writers and directors, including Kathryn Bigelow, and the writers of "Rain Man", "Salvador", "Short Cuts, "Beaches", "Christine", "Desert Hearts" and "Purple Rain".
Highlights while at Innovative included the original screenplay sale of "Collateral" and the writer's subsequent hire to write "Pirates of the Caribbean"; author Mark & Virginia Spragg's "An Unfinished Life", directed by Lasse Halstrom and starring Robert Redford; and book author Amanda Brown's "Legally Blonde" as a Broadway musical. Her tenure at Innovative included representing Academy Award nominated writer Luke Davies ("Lion", "Beautiful Boy"),writer/director Leslye Headland ("Russian Doll") as well as co-charting the careers of talent clients who also were multiple award-winning writers, producers and directors: John Cameron Mitchell, Julie Delpy, Mario Van Peebles, Joan Chen, Sean Astin, Chris Eyre, Isaiah Washington, with the legendary Sammo Hung among them.
She is a frequent contributor to Indiewire and an instructor for screenwriters and authors at the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension where she conducts workshops about how a writer's beliefs and behaviors influence the quality of their careers. Through her company, Literary Business, Nigrosh is a performance coach for writers and offers insider knowledge about how to attract a literary agent.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bruce Lewitt
- Also while still a student at NYU, Nancy took Terry Southern's Master writing class, held on Tuesday nights, at Remington's bar, at the time a basement dive not too far from NYU's main administration building on Waverly Place. While Southern regaled his students with insider Stanley Kubrick stories from Dr. Strangelove and anecdotes about Easy Rider, Nancy pitched him her class project. To her surprise, he offered to write it with her. Though they spent two years writing the script, when Nancy came out to L.A., she ended up taking a different path, to become a literary agent.
- While still a student at NYU's Tisch School Of the Arts, Nancy landed her first job in the film business, as the New York location script supervisor on Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets." Filmed on the streets of Little Italy where Scorsese grew up, the non union production had to stay one step ahead of the teamsters. Local cops watched out for the nascent director and his crew. Scorsese's mom, Catherine, acted in a scene, while many neighborhood friends participated as extras.
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