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MICHAEL J. WALLACH
has been a personal manager guiding the careers of actors
and other industry professionals for more than 20 years. He
also created and teaches a popular six-week course entitled
“This Business of Acting ™” for UCLA Extension several
times each year. Wallach is an attorney admitted to the
New York Bar and began his career with a short stint in the
Queens District Attorney’s Office. He quickly shifted to
entertainment, working at first in business affairs for RCA
Records in New York. Moving
into television and film, he was a business affairs executive
at Columbia Pictures Television. Additionally, Wallach has
been active in increasing the visibility and regard for personal
managers as an important part of the Hollywood process,
and served two terms as vice president of the Conference of
Personal Managers. Wallach frequently lectures at colleges
and acting schools in the Los Angeles area emphasizing his
belief that actors can make it in Hollywood with talent as
well as focus and knowledge of the business, even if they
arrive in town without knowing a soul.
He lives in Los Angeles, California. |
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