EXCLUSIVE: After nearly 12 years as Manager/Producer at the NYC-based Washington Square Films, Jennifer Konawal Brady has joined the recently launched Amplified in the same role.
During her time at Washington Square Films, Brady produced titles including Ari Issler and Ben Snyder’s 11:55; Burn Country starring Rachel Brosnahan and Dominic Rains; Sweets, starring Pedro Pascal, Kevin Corrigan and Sarita Choudhury, for client Catherine Kellner; Colewell starring Karen Allen; the Sundance sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves!, starring Sunita Mani and John Reynolds, alongside Keshet and Heck of a Hill; Janicza Bravo’s Zola, alongside Killer Films and A24; and her client Maya Cozier’s directorial debut She Paradise for Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Most recently, Brady was an EP on Canadian-Italian director Luis DeFillippis’ Something You Said Last Night, a film that has won multiple awards globally as well as being a charter project for a Trans Mentorship Program which provides BTL opportunities for the queer community.
Brady began her career as an executive assistant at WME before following colleague Bill Butler to Gersh, where she worked for 14 years representing talent and literary clients. We’re told that she was instrumental in expanding Gersh’s packaging department through her experience and knowledge of the independent finance world, and her representation of multi-hyphenate talent contributed to the agency’s success at festivals, as well as with studio acquisitions and awards recognition.
With the expansion of nonprofit components to her features as well as new approaches to film financing, Brady has recently expanded into consulting for Film Finance/Media companies. Currently, she’s producing projects for clients Jimmy Giannopoulos (The Birthday Cake), Andrew Neel (Goat, A Teacher), Cozier, DeFillippis and Nick Borenstein, who’s making his feature directorial debut.
In their first year in business, Amplified had 14 clients with lead roles in studio features including Austin Abrams in Wolfs and Weapons, Cameron Monaghan in Tron: Ares, and Robert John Burke in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film for Warner Bros and Legendary. The company also had 28 series regulars on television including the recently announced Dominic Fumusa in Dexter: Resurrection and Ward Horton on The Night Agent alongside fan favorite roles/series like Christopher Meloni in Law & Order: Organized Crime, Scott Grimes in Ted and American Dad, Aryan Simhadri in Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Sara Waisglass and Chelsea Clark in Ginny & Georgia, and Sarah Bock in Severance. Amplified is also coming off of several Broadway/West End runs including Shoshana Bean in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Hell’s Kitchen and Billy Porter’s opening as the Emcee in Cabaret.
On the literary side, clients Hilary Galanoy & Elizabeth Hackett recently saw their film La Dolce Villa open at #1 on Netflix, with 19.8 million views in its first weekend. Amplified helped their client Emily Fox sell the project Royal Spin in a highly competitive situation, and have also closed an overall deal for Jane Maggs at CBS Studios.
