Nancy Nigrosh is a former literary agent who represented the writers, directors, and authors Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), Richard Boyle (Salvador), Barry Morrow (Rain Man), Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals)and Amanda Brown (Legally Blonde). Nancy Nigrosh headed the "lit" department at the Gersh Agency (1982-1993) where she represented African American screenwriter/playwright Richard Wesley, Natalie Cooper, writer of Desert Hearts, writer/director of Purple Rain, the screenwriters of Short Cuts, The Outsiders and Beaches. In 1998 Nancy joined Innovative Artists and signed writers Randy Brown (Trouble With The Curve), Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), Stuart Beattie (Pirates of The Caribbean, Collateral), and filmmakers Mark Rydell and Peter Bogdanovich. Nancy Nigrosh is a regular contributor to Indiewire and The Hollywood Journal and teaches at UCLA Extension's Writers' program.
While still a student at NYU's Tisch School Of the Arts, Nancy landed her first job in the film business, as the New York location script supervisor on Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets." Filmed on the streets of Little Italy where Scorsese grew up, the non union production had to stay one step ahead of the teamsters. Local cops watched out for the nascent director and his crew. Scorsese's mom, Catherine, acted in a scene, while many neighborhood friends participated as extras.
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Also while still a student at NYU, Nancy took Terry Southern's Master writing class, held on Tuesday nights, at Remington's bar, at the time a basement dive not too far from NYU's main administration building on Waverly Place. While Southern regaled his students with insider Stanley Kubrick stories from Dr. Strangelove and anecdotes about Easy Rider, Nancy pitched him her class project. To her surprise, he offered to write it with her. Though they spent two years writing the script, when Nancy came out to L.A., she ended up taking a different path, to become a literary agent.
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