486: "ZADOC ANGELL - ECHO LAKE ENTERTAINMENT"

486: "ZADOC ANGELL - ECHO LAKE ENTERTAINMENT"

Author: Hilliard Guess March 25, 2024 Duration: 1:20:16

In this episode, Hilliard and Rene Rodriguez-Lopez (Development Exec at BET+), sat down for a fun, inspiring conversation with Literary Manager ZADOC ANGELL who began his career as a TV Literary Agent at Paradigm, where he worked for seven years. Transitioning to Literary Management 2010, Zadoc joined forces with manager Dave Brown and grew a team of literary managers which they brought with them to Echo Lake in 2013. Angell's journey to Hollywood is not a conventional one. Growing up on a 400-acre dairy farm in rural upstate New York, Zadoc and his sister Amy were integral to his parents' family-run business. The son of a minister and a local politician, Angell pursued his academic and creative endeavors to Harvard University, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual & Environmental Studies: Film. In addition to being a full-time manager, Angell has taught classes in pilot writing at UCLA. He lives in Redondo Beach with his husband Sean, a high school English teacher, and their twins Conor and Catherine.
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