Nancy Nigrosh

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.