Head of the Literary Department, LA and NYC. Don Buchwald & Associates.
Gayla Nethercott
Gayla happily returned as an agent this year for Don Buchwald & Associates as Head of the Literary Department, LA and NYC.
A passionate writer's advocate for almost 20 years now, she represents both writers and filmmakers for feature film, cable film and all series television. She has represented Gerald DiPego (Phenomenon, The Forgotten), Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves), Walter Bernstein (the Front, Fail Safe, Miss Evers Boys), Mark Legan (Thanks!), Cynthia Saunders (Profiler), Rama Laurie Stagner (Blue Sky), Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will?), and still holds the record for having made one of the top ten spec sales in Hollywood – 2.1 million dollars for DiPego’s Executive Search.
Her current clients include Charles Edward Pogue (The Fly, DOA, Dragonheart), Jeremy Lipp (The Hitcher, The Hidden Room), David Goldsmith (Beautiful People), Dwayne Booth (writer, cartoonist Mr. Fish – 2 time Pulitzer Prize Award Nominee, 2006 and 2007), Andrew Hilton (The Lost Patrol), Justin DiPego (BULL FIGHTER), Ben Schwartz (Furious George, A Swell Party), Susan Arnout Smith (Timer Game, Different), Jenny Wingfield (Man In the Moon, Lion King 2, The Outsider), Sibyl Gardner (Profiler, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia) Sharon Doyle (Nero Wolf), Josef Anderson (Rosie O’Neill, A Year In The Life, LA Law), Laurie Gelman (Eight Simple Rules, Roseanne), Karole Ann Hoeffner (All You’ve Got), Bobs Gannaway (Lilo and Stitch, Emperor’s New School, House of Mouse), Coleman DeKay (Max Headroom, Tales from the Crypt), Tom Morrissey (Colin Fitz); Filmmakers Gabe Torres, Bob Gosse (Shooting Gallery, Niagara, Niagara, Julie Johnson), Mary Stuart Masterson, Martin Donovan, Ralph Macchio, Barry Shils (Wigstock, Real Sex) and Stephen Metcalfe (Mr. Holland’s Opus, Pretty Woman, Cousins); Comedian/Writers; Suli McCullough (Def Comedy Jam, The Cleaner), Tim Bagley (Will and Grace), Margot Black (Smartmouth), Rodney Perry (Johnson Family Vacation), Joey Wells, David Arnold, Paula Bell, Cocoa Brown; Directors Michel Offer (The State Within, Silent Witness), and David Warry-Smith.
Gayla opened her own literary management/production company, Nethercott Associates in the spring of 2002, focusing on comedic talent and live comedy productions, as well as writers and filmmakers for film and television. Prior to that she was a literary agent for sixteen years, the last twelve at the esteemed Broder Kurland Webb Uffner Agency, and Don Buchwald lured her back to her already established agenting career.
During her tenure as a manager, Gayla Executive Produced a series of 6 Live Comedy Shows: Phat Comedy Tuesdays, in which host Guy Torry introduced new comedians at The Comedy Union in Los Angeles, Direct to DVD in 2005-2006. She also Executive Produced the Live Comedy Show Bitter Barren Spinster Bitch, aka BITTER MISSY, a live show starring Kym Whitley and Tangie Ambrose, currently in development as a TV Series, and about to be published as a novel by comedy writer client Stacey Matthew. She also set up the dark comedic Jen Sacks novel NICE along with Producer Keri Selig (Stepford Wives) at Reese Witherspoon’s company Type A Productions, scheduled to move forward in 2008. She Produced two short comedy films for HBO/Def Comedy Jam, one low budget feature film, has worked as a Script Supervisor for several feature film projects, a limited syndicated TV series, and also was a Music Supervisor on several feature film projects and commercial spots.
She is currently on the Board of the Austin Film Festival, which celebrates the writer alongside the filmmaker. She is also affiliated with film writing programs at UCLA, USC, UT, the WGA, and the AFI, as well as being an active participant in the DGA Diversity Program.
Gayla studied studio art, French, Spanish, and Italian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and attended L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. A huge music fan, Gayla also loves NFL football - and hailing from Oakland - is a die-hard Raider fan.