Nancy Nigrosh

Nancy Nigrosh is a former top talent and literary agent at Innovative Artists and headed The Gersh Agency Lit Department, where she represented a number of 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 Artists included the original screenplay sale of "Collateral" and the writer's subsequent hire to write "Pirates of the Carribean"; author Mark & Virginia Spragg's "An Unfinished Life"; book author Amanda Brown's "Legally Blonde" Broadway musical; Robert Caswell's multiple award nominations including WGA win for "Something The Lord Made"' filmmaker Chris Eyre directing "A Year in Mooring". Her 11 year tenure at Innovative included 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, Chad Lowe, Sean Astin, Isaiah Washington, with the legendary Sammo Hung among them. Looking back on her two and half decades as a literary agent, she wrote an article for Daily Variety called 'The Lone Screenwriter' about the industry practice of employing multiple screenwriters for a single film. She is a frequent contributor to Indiewire and serves as a judge for UCLA's Master Screenwriting Competition. She teaches screenwriters and authors at the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension about how their beliefs and behaviors influence the quality of their careers. Through her company, Literary Business, Nancy offers insider knowledge about how to attract a literary agent.