FTT Talks presents Gary Cosay, Consultant, Founding Partner, and Board

Member of United Talent Agency

“The Business of Show Business”

5:00 P.M., Thursday, October 9, 2008

Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

This is a free but ticketed event

Call the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (574)

631-2800 to reserve tickets

In his talk, Gary Cosay will outline what it takes to start and

sustain a successful Hollywood career. From discussing the roles

played by agents and managers to highlighting the dynamic changes

taking place in the media entertainment industry today, Mr. Cosay will

explain how to turn creative talent into a thriving business career.

Across his fifty-year career in the media entertainment industry, Gary

Cosay worked his way up from an agent trainee position at the William

Morris Agency to become a Senior Partner at United Talent Agency, a

leader among the entertainment industry’s talent and literary

agencies. He started his own agency, Cosay & Associates, in 1975,

expanded that company into the Leading Artists Agency in the early

1980s, and became a senior partner of the United Talent Agency through

a 1990 merger. He has represented such artists as Richard Bach

(Jonathan Livingston Seagull), Steve McQueen (The Hunter), Ron Leavitt

& Michael Moye (Married With Children), Carol Black & Neil Marlens

(Growing Pains, The Wonder Years, Ellen), Bruce Helford (The Drew

Carey Show, The George Lopez Show), and David E. Kelley (Doogie

Howser, L.A. Law, Chicago Hope). Recently departing Hollywood for the

East Coast, Mr. Cosay now acts as a consultant for United Talent

Agency and plans to start a new literary agency specializing in books

and screenplays. He currently lives in Nantucket, MA, with his wife,

Healy, and their four dogs.

Sponsored by The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and The Department

of Film, Television, and Theatre

ftt.nd.edu