EXCLUSIVE: Vary Media Companions is launching new divisions with the hiring of three trade veterans: Jeff Jernigan, Randie Adler and Jeff Speich.
Jernigan will assist launch a Composer division inside Vary Music, which has already been lively on the intersection of music & TV by the illustration of expertise like music supervisor Andrea von Forester (Yellowstone, Landman). In the meantime, Adler is launching an IP/Media Rights functionality inside Vary’s Movie & TV division, with Speich to supervise the launch of Vary Literary Publishing, an imprint with Central Restoration Press, which has specialised within the full spectrum of behavioral well being subjects since 2012.
Vary Literary Publishing, specifically, will function a boutique, author-forward imprint dedicated to publishing high-quality works throughout genres together with memoir, fiction, and non-fiction. With a deal with artistic freedom and editorial excellence, the imprint goals to assist each rising and established voices whereas figuring out initiatives with sturdy potential for adaptation in movie and TV.
Representing music for media composers, songwriters, music supervisors, and govt music producers, Jernigan involves Vary after greater than 9 years at Kraft-Engel Administration. He brings with him esteemed shoppers together with Oscar-winning composer Steven Worth (Gravity), Emmy-nominated composer and songwriter Tom Howe (Ted Lasso), Raffertie (The Substance), Emmy-nominated music supervisor Amanda Krieg Thomas (Halston), Brandon Roberts (Andor), Joseph Stephens (The Righteous Gem stones), Disasterpeace (It Follows), Tony Award-nominated composer Helen Park (KPOP), and Grammy-winning music supervisor Steven Gizicki (Maestro).
Jernigan already has deep ties with Vary, as a number of shoppers have intersected on current initiatives with Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Vary’s Co-Presidents of Movie & Manufacturing. His consumer Gizicki, served as music supervisor on James Mangold’s A Full Unknown and Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, each produced by Berger, together with his consumer Worth serving as composer on The Wayward/Vary movie Los Frikis from Vary shoppers Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz.
Earlier than becoming a member of Vary, Adler spent three years within the Media Rights division at ICM earlier than transitioning to CAA following the 2022 acquisition. She started her profession in IP illustration at The Gotham Group. Adler represents a distinguished roster of authors and journalists, together with Dr. Stephanie Inexperienced, creator of The Heathrow Physician; Angie Cruz, who was shortlisted for The Ladies’s Prize and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction; Kayla Rae Whitaker, whose debut novel was named NPR’s Greatest E-book of the Yr; Pat Murphy, winner of the Philip Ok. Dick Award; Aaron Philip Clark, an Worldwide Thriller Writers award nominee; and debut novelists De Elizabeth, Andrew Brininstool and Emet North, amongst others.
Speich spent over a decade at CAA earlier than launching The Channel Highway, the guardian firm of CRP, the place he serves as CEO and writer. CRP’s catalog consists of roughly 200 titles and options standout works akin to My Grandmother’s Arms by Resmaa Menakem, a groundbreaking e-book that reframes racism as a type of trauma carried within the physique and handed down by generations, providing a path to therapeutic by body-centered practices. The e-book spent 29 weeks on the New York Instances bestseller record and has had a major cultural influence.
In a joint assertion on their new appointments, Vary Founding Companions Peter Micelli, Jack Whigham and Matt Graham mentioned, “We based Vary with the intention of constructing a dynamic full-service ecosystem, one which not solely allows our shoppers to seize extra worth in every thing they do but in addition provides effectivity to the method. We take nice satisfaction in advising our shoppers on the continued disruption in our trade and serving to them advantageously navigate these adjustments accordingly. By launching these new capabilities in-house with these best-in-class consultants, our objective is to strategically assist our shoppers and assist expedite the belief of their deepest ambitions.”
Bringing in Meredith Wechter as a managing companion in February, as we advised you first, Vary Media Companions’ current signings embody actor Josh Duhamel and creator James Frey, in addition to multi-hyphenate Miranda Bailey and her Chilly Iron Footage, to call only a few.
