CATHY KANNER, Personal Manager, Kanner Entertainment - FIRST TIME GUEST!
Q&A/Monologues/Songs ONE on ONE
Friday, July 14, 2017, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT
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Cathy Kanner started her career as a dancer and actor in New York. After realizing she loved the business aspect of the industry more, she worked with producer/director Rupert Hitzig and Alan King, the comedian, who had a production company based here. She then went to work for the talent agent Don Buchwald where she worked as an assistant in commercials, TV, and film and spent many years learning the representation of actors. Being torn between representing actors and developing scripts, Cathy went on to assist Boaty Boatwright, the head of MGM Studios and East Coast film production in New York. It was there that she met many luminaries, producers, directors, well-known writers and celebrities. This job took her to California, where she worked for Freddie Fields, vice president of MGM and producer of "Crimes of the Heart", "Poltergeist 2", and "Glory".
After this Cathy worked for manager/producer Erwin Stoff, now a partner at Three Arts Entertainment in California. It was there that Cathy learned the business of managing actors including working with Keanu Reeves, Bill Paxton, Annie Potts, and some major showrunners amongst others.
Cathy moved back to New York with her husband, and opened up her own management company with a partner. She has been managing actors for thirty years. Over the course of her career, she developed Gary Dourdan and put him on CSI, James McCaffrey (Viper and Swift Justice", Arthur Nascarella and John Vantimiglia from the Sopranos, Jennifer Esposito, Lauren Valez, Susan Misner (Americans, Billions, etc..), Eric Jensen, Jeremy Strong (Lincoln, etc...), Boyd Holbrook (Narcos), amongst others. Currently she has clients on The Affair and Billions. Reggie Austin, her client of over ten years, recently completed 10 episodes on Agent Carter for ABC and Sean Mahon completed a series regular role on Red Rock which was shot in Ireland and sold to BBC.
After a Q&A she'll see Monologues/Songs ONE on ONE
Cathy Kanner
CATHY KANNER started her career as a dancer and actor in New York. After realizing she loved the business aspect of the industry more, she worked with producer/director Rupert Hitzig and Alan King, the comedian, who had a production company based here. She then went to work for talent agent Don Buchwald where she worked as an assistant in commercials, TV, and film and spent many years learning the representation of actors.
Being torn between representing actors and developing scripts, Cathy went on to assist Boaty Boatwright, the head of MGM Studios and east coast film production in New York. It was there that she met many luminaries, producers, directors, well know writers and celebrities. This job took her to California, where she worked for Freddie Fields, vice president of MGM and producer of “Crimes of the Heart,” “Poltergeist 2,” and “Glory.”
After this, Cathy worked for manager/producer Erwin Stoff, now a partner at Three Arts Entertainment in California. It was there that Cathy learned the the business of managing actors including working with Keanu Reeves, Bill Paxton, Annie Potts and some major showrunners amongst others.
Cathy moved back to New York with her husband, and opened up her own management company with a partner and has been managing actors for thirty years. Over the course of her career, she developed Gary Dourdan and put him on CSI, James McCaffrey(Viper and Swift Justice), Arthur Nascarella, John Ventimigla, Michael Imperioi, from the Sopranos, Jennifer Esposito, Lauren Velez, Susan Misner(Americans, Billions etc), Eric Jensen, Jeremy Strong (Lincoln, Succession etc), Boyd Holbrook (Narcos) amongst others.
She has had clients on Showtime's The Affair and Billions amongst others and Reggie Austin, her client of over 20 years is now up for a great series regular role along with Sean Mahon who completed a series reg role on Red Rock shot in Ireland and sold to the BBC. Cathy currently resides in NYC but travels frequently to Hawaii to support her client Stephen Hill, a series regular on NBC’s Magnum PI.
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