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Nikki Bergman
Image Credit: Courtesy of Bergman Coordinator, film & TV division
Range Media Partners
Growing up in New York, Bergman didn’t think of show business as a viable career, but she says her mind was changed when an agent spoke at one of her classes at USC. “I was like, ‘I have to do this job. What is this job?’ And ever since then, it was kind of full speed ahead.” She joined Range Media Partners in October 2021 as an associate, working with founding partners Dave Bugliari, Mick Sullivan and Michael Cooper. Following a recent promotion to coordinator, she closed a deal for Range client Benjamin Clementine to join the second season of the Netflix series “The Gentlemen.” -
Katie Byrne
Image Credit: Courtesy of Byrne Assistant, desk of Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO
HBO & HBO Max Content
The UCLA grad began her career in comedy touring at UTA, later working at Tiny Reparations and Brillstein before landing on Casey Bloys’ desk at HBO. “Every day is extremely different, which is exciting, because Casey has such a breadth of responsibilities and he’s at such a high level that he interacts with so many different types of people, different shows, and his schedule is always changing,” says Byrne. “My job is first and foremost making sure that Casey has what he needs to have a smooth day every day and be able to execute it at the level that he’s at.” -
Kimia Simab
Image Credit: Courtesy of Simab Executive assistant to Matthew Greenfield, president
Searchlight PicturesAn L.A. native, Simab graduated from NYU before working on desks at CAA and Untitled Management. For the past four years, she’s been the executive assistant to Matthew Greenfield at Searchlight Pictures, helping shepherd such film and TV projects as “A Complete Unknown,” “All of Us Strangers,” “The Dropout” and the upcoming “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot. She says that being at “a smaller studio within the Disney bubble has been really rewarding. It makes work feel less task-oriented and more project-oriented.”
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Bela Levin
Image Credit: Courtesy of Levin Coordinator, office of Dana Goldberg, chief creative officer
SkydanceLevin says it was a gamble when she spent a big chunk of her savings to leave her native Brazil to enroll at UCLA and try to find a way into showbiz, but it seems to be paying off. Since joining Skydance in 2021, she’s worked with CCO Dana Goldberg on some of the company’s biggest projects, from the billion-plus-dollar big-screen blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” to the Amazon action series “Reacher.” “If I’ve done my job right, she doesn’t see half of the things that I’m doing because I’m making sure that she’s able to do her job,” she says.
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Jessica Omokheyeke
Image Credit: Courtesy of Omokheyeke Executive assistant & project manager, DEI, for Harvey Mason Jr., CEO, and Ricky Lyon, director of diversity, equity & inclusion
The Recording AcademyAfter performing “Breaking Free” at her fourth-grade talent show, Omokheyeke knew she was destined to pursue a career in music. She got her first taste of the business when she was a student at NYU, interning for record labels Interscope and Verve. Upon graduation in June 2023, she landed a job at the Recording Academy, where today she plans exclusive music industry events. “I’m really excited and inspired by a lot of the artists today just being unapologetically, authentically themselves in whatever way is true to them,” she says. “Music now is becoming a lot more personal and seeing how artists choose to live their lives and what they put out musically is exciting.”
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Rose Poole
Image Credit: Courtesy of CAA Motion picture literary assistant, desk of Ida Ziniti, motion picture literary co-head and board member
CAAStarting as a CAA intern during her senior year at USC, Poole quickly realized that she was at the center of all the media she’d consumed growing up. Now that she’s an assistant to Ida Ziniti, she’s experiencing a full-circle moment. “Now I get to help put together what I got to see as a kid,” she says. No day is the same for Poole, but, for her, that’s the fun part. About 80% of her time is dedicated to typical assistant duties, from managing Ziniti’s schedule to coordinating client meetings, and the other 20% is devoted to her work as a motion picture trainee.
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Christine Murrain
Image Credit: Scott Angelheart/NBC
Coordinator, office of Pearlena Igbokwe, chairman, TV studios
NBC Entertainment & Peacock scriptedMurrain has been at NBCUniversal for the past six years. She began as a West Coast page in 2019 and went on to work in strategy, production and acquisitions for Universal Pictures and Focus Features. She admires the composure of her current boss, TV executive Pearlena Igbokwe, stressing the importance of humility as a necessary quality in the entertainment industry. “If I get to be in a role where I can both shape the content that we’re making and the experiences of the people who are making it,” she says, “that would be fantastic.”
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Blake Maley
Image Credit: Brendan Mitchell Coordinator, desk of president Leslie Siebert
Gersh AgencyFrom the time he was a kid, seeing live theater shows with his mom, Maley has been drawn to storytelling and the influence of entertainment. “I knew I wanted to work with top dealmakers in Hollywood and learn from the best,” the Chicago native says, and he saw talent agencies as places where storytelling and influence intersect. But at Washington University in St. Louis, he earned a B.A. in anthropology, which he points out has a strong emphasis on observation before action, in contrast to his current gig, where he often has to “jump in and learn by doing — and sometimes figure it out after the fact.”
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Arman Yaghmai
Image Credit: Courtesy of Yaghmai Motion picture literary assistant to co-founder and partner Adam Levine
VerveGrowing up in Los Angeles, Yaghmai discovered a love for writing stories at an early age. Now as a motion picture literary assistant for Verve, Yaghmai often reads six to seven scripts per week in search of new cinematic voices, while also planning philanthropic events such as the Verve Walk, which raises money to support Inner City Arts. “I’m most hopeful that more original stories will be made and will come to fruition,” he says. “The things that stand out when I read scripts are the ones that have sort of a unique voice and a really compelling storyline that starts with characters that are distinct.”
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Olivia Zweig
Image Credit: Courtesy of Zweig Administrative assistant to president Ashley Brucks
Screen GemsZweig began her career as a production assistant on Fox’s hit reality series “The Masked Singer,” then in November 2021 transitioned to scripted development at Sony, where she first reported to Maia Eyre at Columbia Pictures. Last year, she assumed her current role as assistant to Screen Gems president Ashley Brucks, working on a slate of genre movies like the ones she’d like to one day produce. She says her job gives her “the opportunity to contribute more and work closely with each executive,” and “foster a creative eco-system across the division.”
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