JUNE’S SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:
FREDERICK LEVY
Talent and Literary Manager, Producer, Author

FREDERICK LEVY is the owner of Management 101, a firm that guides the careers of actors, authors, screenwriters, and directors. In addition to his day to day management of clients, he also develops and produces film and television. Clients can be seen on the ollowing TV shows: CSI, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Will & Grace, Saturday Night Live, Cold Case, Numbers, According to Jim, The Bad Girl's Guide to Life, Strong Medicine, Without A Trace, Girlfriends, Drake & Josh, Reno 911, World Cup Comedy, Nick Cannon's Wild N Out, The Bernie Mac Show, Sons & Daughters, Entourage, Everybody Hates Chris, The Young and the Restless, Monk, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Unfabulous, Surface, Ben Ten, Backyardigans, Love Inc., Gilmore Girls, Head Cases, and 7th Heaven, to name a few. Clients can also be seen in the following recently/soon to be released movies: Chrystal (w. Billy Bob Thornton), Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (w. Jack Black), Full Clip (w. Busta Rhymes), The Fallen, Wassup Rockers (from director Larry Clark), Pop Rocks (w. Gary Cole), The Go-Getters (w. Jenna Malone), For One Night (w. Raven Symone), Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Rome & Jewell, From Justin to Kelly (w. Kelly Clarkson), Heaven's Fall (w. Timothy Huton & Leelee Sobieski), Box Boarders, Totally Awesome, Triloquist, Mortuary, and Shallow Ground, among others.

Currently Frederick is the Executive Producer of Unknown starring Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ), Greg Kinnear, Joe Pantoliano and Jeremy Sisto. It will be distributed by the Weinstein Company (formerly Miramax Films). Previously, Frederick was a producer on Frailty, starring Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey, for Lions Gate Films. Levy also served recently as the US Casting Director on Big in America, RTL Germany’s version of the hit US TV show Making the Band.

Before founding Management 101, Levy was the Vice President of Development and Production at Marty Katz Productions. While there, the company produced James Cameron’s Titanic for Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, The Great Raid for Miramax Films, directed by John Dahl, and starring Benjamin Bratt, The Four Feathers for Miramax Films and Paramount Pictures, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Wes Bentley and Heath Ledger, Impostor for Dimension films, directed by Gary Fleder, and starring Gary Sinise and Madeline Stowe, Reindeer Games, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron, Mr. Wrong starring Ellen DeGeneres for Touchstone Pictures and Man Of The House starring Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas for Walt Disney Pictures. Before joining Marty Katz Productions, Frederick worked for InterMedia/FilmEquities, Inc. which financed and packaged films.

Aside from his producing chores, Levy is also the author of four books about the entertainment industry. Short Films 101: How To Make A Short And Launch Your Filmmaking Career will be published May, 2004 from Perigee Books. The Hollywood Way (St. Martin’s Press, 2002) is an examination of the skills that make one successful in Hollywood; it then shows how to apply these same skills to find success in any career. Hollywood 101: The Film Industry (Renaissance, 2000), a two-time Los Angeles Times Best Seller, is a survey of the film business in which Levy interviewed dozens of working industry professionals about getting started in a Hollywood career (www.hollywood-101.com). The Ultimate Boy Band Book (Pocket Books, 2000) is a young adult book about the boy band phenomenon in which Levy interviewed many of today’s top teen music acts about the youth dominated music scene.

Frederick began his Hollywood career as a studio guide at Universal Studios Hollywood. He got his start in television working as a Guest Coordinator on more than a dozen shows including Love Connection and Studs. He also worked in professional radio as producer of The Morning Magazine on KWNK, Los Angeles, and the syndicated THEN & NOW and THE CELEBRITY DJ PARTY, both of which he also created.

Levy has served as the West Coast Director of the National Association of College Broadcasters. He was also a mentor for the EAGLES High School, a teacher with the Sholem Community and an advisor to several student organizations at The University of Southern California, his alma mater. Frederick graduated from USC with a B.S. in Business/Marketing. He currently teaches film classes at UCLA Extension, the USC School of Cinema-Television. Consistently busy with a multitude of diverse media projects, Frederick is most proud of his work with the Starlight Foundation for which he produced two celebrity charity benefits that raised money to help seriously ill children.

Levy is an avid speaker on the lecture circuit having lectured at Harvard, Yale, NYU, USC, Rutgers, and Boston University, and numerous writer seminars throughout the country. He has been a featured guest on many TV and radio talk shows including Entertainment Tonight, CNN, Fox News, MTV, VH-1, Starz!, CBS News, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, and National Enquirer TV.