Faculty Directory

Neal Weisman

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Neal Weisman is an award-winning film and television producer with over 25 years of international experience in Los Angeles, London, and New York. Producing credits include The Politician’s Wife (winner of BAFTA, International Emmy, and Peabody Awards), Seeing Red (winner of Christopher Award), and My Kingdom (World Premiere of Toronto International Film Festival), which starred Richard Harris in his last leading role. Let’s Talk About Sex, a documentary, was broadcast on TLC/Discovery, digital and DVD release through New Video. Neal was the Vice President of the Edward Pressman Film Corporation, which was responsible for producing films like Academy Award winners Wall Street (starred Michael Douglas, directed by Oliver Stone) and Reversal of Fortune (which won Jeremy Irons his Best Leading Actor Oscar starring opposite Glenn Close). Also Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio, Plenty, which starred Meryl Streep, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep With Anger, David Byrne’s True Stories, and Best Directing Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel. He is a dual US/UK citizen and currently resides in New York City.

Nicholas Yellen

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Nick founded NYCA, a Manhattan based literary agency representing screenwriters, directors, playwrights, TV writers, and novelists where he has set up projects at almost every major studio and TV network.

Nick co-founded Edwards-Yellen Entertainment (EYE), a literary management/film and television production company based in Los Angeles. While with EYE, the company had a 2-picture production deal with ABC-Productions. He produced I Know What You Did with Rosanna Arquette, the VH1 TV movie Out of Sync, Retribution for the SAT1 cable network, and the feature If Tomorrow Comes with James Franco. EYE also had development deals with many of the major networks and studios including ABC, Hearst Entertainment, VH1, Phoenix Pictures, Edward R. Pressman, Warner Bros., Alan Landsberg Productions, The Wolper Organization, Lifetime Network, All Girl Productions, and Wilshire Court among others. Nick also worked on the movie Intent for Columbia/Tri-Star.

Theatrically, Nick helped produce the musicals Lucky in the Rain, for the Goodspeed Opera House and Say Yes at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Nick started his career in film and television at International Creative Management (ICM), then the world’s largest talent agency. After leaving ICM, Nick managed the Geffen Records recording artist Graveyard Train. Nick began his career as an FM-Radio disc jockey in Saratoga, NY and San Antonio, TX.