2 weeks ago
EXCLUSIVE: Felicia Prinz has near Verve wherever she had been for 13 years, astir precocious arsenic Partner and Head of nan Television Literary Department. She is going to Range wherever she will beryllium a Partner and a manger successful nan film/TV division. Prinz is joining different caller hire, Nishika Kumble, who was named SVP of Scripted Television for Range Studios, nan independent workplace section of Range Media Partners, almost 2 months ago.
Prinz joined Verve successful 2013, became Partner successful 2020, and was named Head of Television Literary successful 2022. She oversaw Verve’s scripted tv business crossed writers, showrunners, directors, creators, and producer-directors and worked connected increasing nan agency’s TV department. Additionally, Prinz was portion of nan broader Verve squad representing multi-hyphenate tv talent.
Clients joining Prinz astatine Range see Ransom Canyon creator and showrunner April Blair, Micah Schraft (The Morning Show), Katie Wech (Matlock), The Bold Type creator Sarah Watson, Olatunde Osunsanmi (Star Trek), Arika Mittman (Irrational), Drop Dead Diva creator Josh Berman, Gotham Knights co-developers Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux, and Paul Scairrotta (Jane nan Virgin).
“Felicia Prinz has been a weighted colleague, partner, and friend complete nan past 13 years, and we are tremendously excited to spot her embark connected this adjacent section of her career, transitioning to go a head alongside our friends astatine Range,” Verve’s co-founding partners Adam Levine and Bryan Besser said successful a stateent. “We look guardant to continuing to activity alongside her successful this caller capacity for galore years to come.”
For Prinz, who was first rumored to subordinate Range successful December earlier nan 2 parties had started conversations, this marks a return to management. Prior to joining Verve, she was a head astatine Fineman Entertainment. She started her profession astatine CAA, followed by ICM and different guidance company, 3 Arts Entertainment.
Prinz’s departure comes a mates of weeks aft different high-level verve lit agent, Managing Partner Liz Parker, left to motorboat her ain company.
Kumble astir precocious served arsenic SVP of Film & Television astatine Malala Yousafzai’s Extracurricular Productions, overseeing nan merchandise of Bread & Roses and The Last Of nan Women connected Apple TV. Before that, she launched nan scripted tv section astatine Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Productions, worked connected scripted bid astatine Entertainment One, including Showtime’s Yellowjackets and Freeform’s Cruel Summer, and served arsenic VP of Development & Production astatine Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train Productions. Kumble started arsenic an executive astatine Noah Hawley’s FX-based accumulation institution 26 Keys aft opening her profession astatine CAA moving for Jacqueline Sacerio, past a TV lit agent. Sacerio joined Range Studios arsenic President of Scripted Television successful February.
“Felicia’s exceptional sensation successful tv writers & directors, and her expertise to thief her clients navigate nan progressively analyzable tv landscape, is barroom none. As a seasoned executive, Nishika’s expertise to place superb worldly & activity pinch nan champion artists to get premium shows disconnected nan crushed will thief accelerate our Scripted TV workplace pipeline,” said Rich Cook, Founding Partner astatine Range, and Jacqueline Sacerio, President of Scripted TV, Range Studios, successful a associated statement. “Together, Felicia & Nishika further solidify Range’s tv footprint crossed practice and production.”
The 2 caller additions travel Range’s caller prosecute of talent rep Brandon Liebman arsenic a Partner & Manager successful nan Film/TV division.
