EXCLUSIVE: Richard Shepard has signed with TFC. The transfer reunites the Emmy and DGA Award-winning director-writer with former WME associate David Stone who based the administration firm in 2020 with UTA’s Ben Jacobson.
“I’m tremendous psyched to be again in enterprise with David Stone,” mentioned Shepard who was a shopper of Stone’s at WME years in the past. “He’s one of many smartest guys within the enterprise, and together with Zach Carlisle and the remainder of the oldsters at TFC I’m excited for this subsequent chapter.”
Shepard has directed 10 tv pilots which have gone to sequence — or the tone-setting pilot episodes of exhibits with straight-to-series orders — together with Prison Minds, Ugly Betty, for which he gained an Emmy, Rosewood, Salem, Sweetbitter, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and Acapulco, now in its third season on Apple. Shepard additionally directed 12 episodes of HBO’s Ladies, a number of episodes of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Story, and the ultimate two episodes of Hulu’s restricted sequence Welcome to Chippendales.
Shepard’s characteristic movies as author/director embody the 2018 horror movie The Perfection, starring Allison Williams and Logan Browning for Netflix; the black comedy Dom Hemingway, starring Jude Regulation and Richard E. Grant for Fox Searchlight; and The Matador, starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear.
His latest movie, the documentary Movie Geek not too long ago premiered at The American Cinematheque in Los Angeles and can play at Movie Discussion board in New York Metropolis beginning Might 17. Shepard’s brief movie Tokyo Undertaking starring Elisabeth Moss premiered on the 2017 Tribeca Movie Pageant and was purchased by HBO. He continues to be repped by CAA and lawyer Karl Austen.