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Our clients are talented
individuals in the field of professional speaking and highly regarded
literary professionals, authors, trainers, educators, motivators,
consultants, and offer individual expertise in such areas as education,
medicine, publishing, entertainment law, theatre, film, song and play
writing and productions, and much more...
Ed Bullins Living Legend and
pioneering artist of the Black Theater movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Ed
Bullins is known for writing plays such as In the Wine Tine
(1968) and Goin A Buffalo (1968). He has received numerous awards
for playwriting including an Obie Award for distinguished playwriting and the
Black Arts Alliance Award for The Fabulous Miss Marie
(1971), and In New England Winter (1969). For the Taking
of Miss Janie, Mr. Bullins received the Obie Award for distinguished
playwriting and the New York Drama Critics Award. In 1971 and 1976, he won
the Guggenheim Fellowship for playwriting. In 1975, he won the Drama
Desk-Vernon Rice Award, two more Obies, two Guggenheim fellowships, four
Rockefeller Foundation playwriting grants, and two National Endowment for the
Arts playwriting grants. His 50 + plays include How Do You Do? (1965, one act),
Dialect Determinism, or The Rally (1965, one act), Clara's Ole Man (1965, one
act), The Corner (1968), The Duplex (1970), Home Boy (1976), Daddy (1977), and
Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam (1991). Professor, Distinguished
Artist-in-Residence, Northeastern University, Mr. Ed Bullins is author of eight
books including
ED BULLINS: 12 Plays and Selected Writings (U of Michigan Press, 2006),
The Reluctant Rapist (1973, novel), and The Hungered One (1971, short
stories, recently republished). Education: BA, Antioch University, MFA,
San Francisco State University.
Gregory J. Reed An author, song, film, and play producer,
agent, entertainment attorney Reed’s experiences are diverse and he is the
only attorney to represent six (6) world champion boxers and was credited
with negotiating the largest contract in boxing history. He represents
sports figures, entertainers, firms, and numerous persons from TV to
Broadway. He is one of the founders Vice President board member of The
Black Entertainment Sports Lawyers Association (BESLA). He is the
first African American lawyer to Chair a Sports and Entertainment Lawyers
Section in the United States
and
is widely recognized as an expert witness in entertainment-related matters
nationwide. For over two decades Mr. Reed has championed the right of
private individuals to control the commercial use of their own image, voice
and likeness. Some of his career highlights include his suits on
behalf of Mrs. Rosa Parks and the family members of the original Temptations
music group. He also successfully litigated against the Miss USA
beauty pageant. He challenged the terms of beauty contest employment
contracts and forced the industry to adopt more equitable terms for their
titleholders. On October 17, 2003, The State of Michigan Arts,
Communication, Entertainment and Sports Section presented him with the John
Hensel Award. The Section gives the Hensel Award each year to a
Michigan attorney who has made significant contributions to the arts,
communications, entertainment or sports area. He is the first African
American to receive a Masters in Taxation in Michigan. He has been a
professor of taxation in the School of Business at Wayne State University,
and is the first African American lawyer to be a member of the Internal
Revenue Service Advisory Board of the United States. Author of 14 books, his
books include This Business of Entertainment and Its Secrets
(1985), Negotiations Behind Closed Doors (1992), Quiet
Strength with Mrs. Rosa Parks (1995, Zondervan Publishing Company),
Dear Mrs. Parks (1996, Lee & Low Publishing), and Economic
Empowerment Through The Church (1994, Zondervan Publishing Company).
Education: B.S., Michigan State University (Engineering); M.S., Michigan
State University (Management Science); J.D., Wayne State University; L.L.M.,
Wayne State University (Master Of Taxation Law).
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Grace Adams
The Grace Company Literary Agency
829 Langdon Court, Suite 45
Rochester Hills, MI 48307
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