Last updated: 12/23/2011; 7:23pm
Compiled: Various sources
KNOWN OCCUPATION/s (past and present):
Strategic Consultant
Music Manager
Talent Manager (film/tv)
Film Producer
Studio Executive
Investment Portfolio Manager
Investigative Reporter/Columnist
Author
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (partial):
-Justice Rapid Response
-Vice President of Production and Development
The Goldstein Company (Producers of Pretty Woman, Under Siege)
-Frank Price Productions/Film Development
-Columbia Pictures/Film Development
-Theatre Producer: Sam Shepard Plays
-Various newspapers and magazines including Huffington Post (current)
Known For:
-Selling Dwight Yoakam’s music catalogue for a record breaking multiple, matching the top historical sale of the Motown catalogue sale, taking over Yoakam’s management following the sale, overhauling his career, in music, film/tv and ancillary businesses. Responsible for his successful comeback, tours, albums, 2005-2014. Stunned the industry when she gave up the position to work with Justice Rapid Response, a non profit that investigates and prosecutes crimes against humanity.
-Community work in various neighborhoods: West LA (gang clean up, work with LAPD), Outpost/Hollywood (crime prevention program); Toluca Lake (founder of Toluca Lake Noise Council and known for banning helicopters in the immediate air space)
-Founding film development and production company with Academy Award Winner Katja von Garnier.
-Breaking a number of investigative stories in the early 90’s. Double winner of Quill and Scroll Award, triple scholarship winner, highly acclaimed columnist.
-Memberships at Soho House and regular attendee at flagship TED Conference
-FADE-IN magazine: Selected as one of the Top 100 People to know in Hollywood
Writer:
Contributor to CMT, Country Music Today Magazine; involved in bid to purchase magazine 2005/06
Book author: ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: Ways to Feel Safe in Challenging Times (also creator of the brand that accompanies the book). Link: www.ThePeanutPeople.com
Award Winning Journalist and Columnist: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Times Union, The Independent Journal, Pacific News Service, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, etc
Fox 2000 Twentieth Century Fox
Film Writer
Disturbing the Peace
Screenwriter
Other:
Speaker: Hollywood Film Festival, various panels, speaking engagements
FADE-IN magazine: Selected as one of the Top 100 People to know in Hollywood
Producers Guild of America
CAA (Creative Artists Agency) agency
Los Angeles Citizen of the Year 1996-7
Los Angeles TIMES CALENDAR COVER/interview
Fundraiser Chair for Lewa Conservancy; helped save Rhinos on the brink of extinction via her fundraisers/CAA.
Film Producer:
IRON JAWED ANGELS
Emmy Award / Golden Globe winning, starring Hilary Swank, Angelica Houston, etc. for HBO
Executive Producer/ Untitled TV series sold to CBS
http://deadline.com/2011/10/cbs-buys-dramas-from-niels-mueller-krista-vernoff-closes-deal-for-jon-favreau-pilot-185408/
BANDITS (working title)
Producing with John Wells (ER, WEST WING, White Orleander, China Beach).
DISTURBING THE PEACE, writer/producer
Premiered at the Sedona Film Festival
Other known films associated with (development): Griffin and Sabine, Providence, Die Kinder, Anna Merz
Known Charity Involvement:
Max It Out http://www.maxitout.org
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
Lewa Wildlife Conservatory http://www.lewa.org
Links:
www.cmt.com/countrymusictoday/
www.cmt.com/countrymusictoday/magazine/home.html
www.hollywoodawards.com/conference/index97.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566405/publicity
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