
Directors Jeff Melman, Ted Kotcheff, Jeremiah Chechik, Leslie Libman and Lee Rose have signed with APA.
Veteran Jeff Melman, a six-time Emmy nominee, recently has directed episodes of Modern Family, Animal Practice, Happy Endings and Community. He was formerly with ICM Partners.
Ted Kotcheff has served as director/executive producer on Law & Order: SVU for the past 12 seasons. His feature directorial credits include Weekend At Bernie’s, Switching Channels and First Blood. He continues to be managed by Craig Baumgarten. He was with ICM.
Jeremiah Chechik has directed episodes of Hart Of Dixie, The Glades, Leverage, Gossip Girl, Chuck, Burn Notice and Warehouse 13, as well as the pilot episodes of J.O.N.A.S. and The Middleman, for which he also served as supervising producer. On the feature side, he directed Christmas Vacation, the 1998 The Avengers, and most recently the upcoming The Right Kind Of Wrong. Chechik continues to be managed by Thrive Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment. He was with ICM.
Leslie Libman has directed episodes of cable series Entourage, The Wire, The L Word and Sleeper Cell and a number of TV movies. She continues to be repped by Paul Alan Smith and attorney Robert Offer. She was with ICM.
Lee Rose has directed episodes of Weeds, The Glades and Haven. She also wrote, directed and executive produced the TV movies An Unexpected Love and A Girl Thing. Rose continues to be repped by attorney Tom Hoberman. She comes from Gersh.
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We got some people. At last!
Is that you Ochacher?
Lee Dinstman busts his ass for his clients, gets them jobs. So you can’t even shade the dude. He deserves all the success he receives.
Lee’s twitter feed says it all, bragging about a show being picked up, then canceled a few days later. The spelling errors are pitiful.
Lee Dintsman will sign anyone – literally. A couple decent names there, but a couple haven’t worked in over two years. Just sayin.
Ain’t that the truth. I was his client and he always returned my calls and had absolutely nothing to say. All the work I got I got myself but he still happily commissioned it.
keep them coming ryan martin. who do you have in tonight’s Clippers game.
Amazing. I like these guys very much. Their alternative group is actually very impressive and with Rob now in lit I think it’s obviously that this agency is making moves.
The alternative department over there is not impressive at all.
These are all solid signs for APA. 5 at a time too… Very cool.
Way to go jack!!!!
Bradie Steinlauf was integral in the process
Good one Bradie. Funny stuff.
They haven’t worked in years because they were repped elsewhere. Lee kills for his clients and I don’t doubt all of them will be nice and busy again.
It’s funny. ICM loses 4 clients. APA signs them and haters keep knocking them. Must mean APA is doing something right. Good guys over there. Glad they’re winning
Now I know why I just get 30 seconds on the phone with my agents. They’re too busy stalking APA on the internet. Time for a change….
Leighton and Dinstman: Winning!
Jack and Lee? Winning? Ha – that’s pretty funny!