Wayne Alexander
Wayne Alexander is a founding partner of the firm.
Wayne graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with departmental honors and Phi Beta Kappa, and is a Yale Law School graduate.
Prior to founding Alexander, Nau, Lawrence, Frumes & Labowitz, Wayne was a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and was associated with and later became a partner at Pollock, Bloom & Dekom, after being associated with Hardee, Barovick, Konecky & Braun and Greenberg & Glusker.
Wayne represents writers, authors, directors and actors, visual effects supervisors and companies, literary/talent agents and managers, and video game designers, as well as a few motion picture and television producers. Wayne has developed particular expertise in negotiation of executive employment agreements with studios and other companies, production and distribution of independent films and television series, representing foreign actors, writers, directors and producers in the United States, and licensing of remake/sequel rights and television series format rights.
In other areas, Wayne represents companies which design and produce special venue films and theme park attractions.
A few representative, current clients:
Novelists/Authors:
Charles Frazier, James Ellroy, Robert Jordan (estate), Vince Bugliosi, Brunonia Barry, Patricia Burroughs, George V. Higgins (estate), Marshall Jon Fisher, Stephen Ambrose (estate), Hugh Ambrose; Marie Lu, Jamie Ford, Gail Carriger, Ally Carter, Miranda Kenneally, Hugh Howey, Charles Fox, Helen Stringer
Directors:
Bill Condon, Stuart Gordon, Patrick Read Johnson, Paul A. Kaufman, Jeremy Kagan, Roger Spottiswoode, Anthony Stacchi, Steven C. Miller; Jsu Garcia
Film/TV Writers:
Hans Bauer, Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow, Bill Condon, Matt Dorff, David Dortort (estate), Andre & Maria Jacquemetton, Craig Mitchell, Alexandra Seros, Richard Tuggle
Visual Effects:
Scott E. Anderson, Matt Beck, Jerome Chen, Jon Farhat, Ben Snow, Craig Hayes
Film/TV Producers:
Don Borchers, Walter Coblenz, Bob Solo, Bob Papazian/Jim Hirsch, Rene Malo, Clark Peterson, Andre Link, Harley Cokeliss, Carol Baum, David Helpern
Agents/Managers:
Stone Canyon Media, Intellectual Property Group, Nelson Literary Agency
Actors:
Jay Chou, Susan Flannery, Ronn Moss, Erik Odom