EXCLUSIVE: Anthony E. Zuiker, the creator of the vastly profitable CSI TV franchise, has signed with boutique administration agency Literate.
This marks a uncommon new addition to Zuiker’s close-knit illustration group, nicknamed affectionately by the writer-producer “Workforce Zuiker,” who has been shaping his profession and model for greater than 20 years.
It follows the January loss of life of Zuiker’s beloved supervisor of over 25 years, Margaret Riley, most lately of Lighthouse Leisure, who handed away from most cancers on the age of 58.
In a shifting tribute for Deadline on the time, Zuiker recalled how Riley signed Zuiker on his thirtieth birthday, 8/17/1998, when he was nonetheless attempting to interrupt into Hollywood. Serving to him land early writing gigs that led to CSI, Riley additionally took Zuiker to the expertise companies, with him touchdown at CAA with Joe Cohen, and launched him to leisure lawyer Kevin Yorn. Each are nonetheless members of “Workforce Zuiker,” with Cohen guiding the creator within the means of discovering a brand new supervisor, which resulted in Zuiker going with Literate companions Elizabeth Newman, A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim.
“Earlier than my beloved supervisor Margaret Riley handed, she used to say, ‘We now have much more to do collectively.’ I consider in my coronary heart of hearts, she’d need me to proceed,” Zuiker stated. “I requested my expensive good friend and longtime CAA agent Joe Cohen for ‘the very best of the very best.’ Elizabeth Newman was on that brief listing. She, and the group at Literate, are essentially the most passionate and engaged group I’ve ever been round. They’re the brand new ‘Workforce Zuiker.’ We’ll all work collectively to proceed to interrupt new floor in tech and gaming and inform nice world tales in Margaret’s honor.”
On Zuiker’s illustration group, the Literate trio joins CAA brokers Cohen, Jeff Jacobs, Carly Fromm, and Harley Copen, legal professional Yorn of Yorn Levine Barnes Krintzman, enterprise supervisor Harley Neuman of Neuman + Associates and publicist Jonalyn Morris.
“We’re thrilled to be the most recent members of Workforce Zuiker,” Newman stated. “Anthony’s visionary storytelling and indefatigable ambition embodies the kind of creator we like to accomplice with, and all of us at Literate are trying ahead to working alongside him on this new chapter.”
Teaming with Jerry Bruckheimer Tv, Zuiker created CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which launched in 2000 on CBS and spawned 4 spinoff sequence, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Cyber, and CSI: Vegas, airing just below 900 episodes to this point and garnering two Guinness World Data.
Zuiker is closely concerned within the storytelling and day-to-day writing operations for CSI: Vegas, now in its third season.
“At Jerry Bruckheimer Tv, we’ve watched Anthony Zuiker develop from a first-time creator with a groundbreaking thought, to the gifted man he’s at the moment,” Bruckheimer stated. “Anthony is loyal to the folks round him and is relentless about pushing the boundaries on storytelling.”
Zuiker, who has a number of scripted and unscripted TV tasks in improvement, additionally has a take care of Sinclair to develop authentic content material and sequence. He serves as govt producer on themusical The Hippest Journey, primarily based on the enduring Soul Practice TV sequence, and winner of seven BroadwayWorld San Francisco/Bay Space Awards, together with Finest New Musical or Play. Zuiker can also be an investor in Alicia Keys’ new musical, Hell’s Kitchen, coming to Broadway this spring.
Different high TV creators/showrunners on Literate’s roster embody Fits and Fits: LA creator Aaron Korsh, Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen and The Strolling Useless and The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon govt producer/showrunner Angela Kang.
