EXCLUSIVE : Industry Entertainment veterans Bill Butler and Michelle Kittrell have left after 14 years to join upstart management/production company Amplified, launched earlier this year by fellow longtime Industry Entertainment managers Adam Levine, Brandy Rivers and Michael Hepburn.
Butler and Kittrell, who are bringing all of their clients, will be launching a New York office of Amplified, located in Chelsea. Butler, who was a Partner at Industry, will join Hepburn, Rivers and Levine as Partner; Kittrell has been named VP /Head of NY Talent.
Butler started his career at WMA before moving to Gersh where he eventually rose to Senior Partner and head of the NY office. Kittrell began her career in theater before transitioning to representation at Gersh NY. She followed Butler when he left to launch the NY offices of Industry Entertainment in 2010.
Butler and Kittrell have been instrumental in growing the NY offices of both Gersh and Industry, working with a roster of clients, many of whom have been with them for decades. The list includes Christopher Meloni ( Law & Order: Organized Crime ), Billy Porter ( Pose ), Calista Flockhart (Feud: Capote vs The Swans) , Victor Garber ( Alias ), Donna Murphy ( The Gilded Age ), Michael Cyril Creighton ( Only Murders in the Building ), Thomas Sadoski ( The Newsroom ), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ( Law & Order: Organized Crime ), Dagmara Dominczyk ( Succession ), Jelani Alladin ( Fellow Travelers ), Shoshana Bean (Tony Nominee, Hell’s Kitchen ), Stark Sands (Tony Nominee, Kinky Boots ), Robert John Burke ( Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ), Julie Halston ( And Just Like That ) Lee Tergesen ( Oz ), Ward Horton ( The Gilded Age ), Ledisi (Grammy Winner, Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story ), and Lawrence Gilliard Jr. ( The Wire ).