Images Agency Hosts Producer And Talent Manager Marilyn Atlas Saturday In St Louis

ST. LOUIS - May 3, 2016 - PRLog -- An award-winning producer and personal manager of actors and writers, Marilyn R. Atlas is equally at home in the worlds of film, television, and live theater. Among her credits as film producer are
"Real Women Have Curves" for HBO, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, "A Certain Desire," starring Sam Waterston, and "Echoes," which won the Gold Award at the Texas International Film Festival. In addition to producing a variety of programming for the cable/ pay TV market, Marilyn served as a production consultant on the film "Call Me." She was also involved as a producer in the development of the MOW "Nightwalker" and "Playing for Keeps."

Marilyn is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. She has spoken at their Writers' and Producers' retreats, the DGA-sponsored LA Asian Film Festival, as well as various other symposia for the Sherman Oaks Experimental College. She is a founding member of Women in Film's Luminas Committee which supports the portrayal of women in non-stereotypical roles in film and television. She has spoken at events such as The San Francisco Writers Conference, the Santa Fe Screenwriters Conference and Richard Krevolin's USC Screenwriting Retreat. Marilyn has also taught several actor workshops.  Additionally, she was a guest lecturer in the Writing Program at USC for several years, where she also taught a class every year on creating three-dimensional, non-stereotypical characters. She has spoken at the Texas Bar Association and was a guest lecturer at Whittier Law School.

Her clients have appeared in shows such as Star Trek,Fringe, Pretty Little Liars, 90210, Revenge, Hart of Dixie, NCIS:LA, True Blood, Dexter, Chuck, Castle, and Criminal Minds. In addition, her clients have worked on feature films such as Holes, Transformers, and Ted 2. Marilyn herself has been in development on pilots for Showtime and ABC Family.

In addition to Marilyn's film/TV credits, she has sold (first time) novels "Chasing the Jaguar" to HarperCollins, "Hungry Woman in Paris" to Grand Central Publishing, and the "Ave Maria Bed & Breakfast" to Hachette Publishing, and the "Last Ride of Caleb O'Toole" to Source Books.

Recently, Marilyn has been developing a miniseries and TV pilot based on the Gary Phillips series of novels featuring Martha Chainey.  She is packaging a miniseries based on the adventures of 60s counter-culture hero Abbie Hoffman. Also of late, her Lifetime movie "The Choking Game," based on the YA book by Diana Lopez, aired in summer 2014 and she also spoke at the 2014 International Women's Writer Festival in Italy.

Marilyn is the co-author of a relationship-based, screenwriting guide called "Dating Your Character," about an organic approach to character creation for Stairway Press's early 2016 catalog. She is also featured in the book "Write Now!" from Penguin/Tarcher.

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Images Agency is located just north of highway 64/40 on Lindbergh, at 711 Old Frontenac Square.  For more information on this event, please contact Images at 314-372-0500, or go to http://www.imagesagency.com.