EXCLUSIVE: Black Field Administration has signed Emmy and Peabody Award-nominated author, producer, commentator and scholar of religions Dr. Reza Aslan for illustration, Deadline has realized.
Boasting producing and writing credit together with HBO’s The Leftovers and hit CBS comedy United States of Al, Azlan is in any other case maybe greatest often called the host and government producer of CNN’s Believer, which follows him as he embarks on a religious journey, immersing himself in non secular traditions each acquainted and downright weird to expertise life as a real believer.
A recipient of the distinguished James Joyce award, he’s the creator of the #1 New York Occasions bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Occasions of Jesus of Nazareth, and An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Demise of Howard Baskerville. He’s additionally the host and government producer of Subject’s discuss present Tough Draft with Reza Aslan, in addition to co-host with Rainn Wilson of the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake.
Said Black Field companions Mike Dill and Lowell Shapiro on the signing, “Reza’s storied record of credentials and capabilities as a present creator and world builder communicate for themself. Given the difficult data local weather we’re in, we really feel a voice like Reza’s is ever extra necessary than ever to function an anchoring power in our world. True to Black Field kind, we consider a high-end creator like Reza advantages from built-in companies throughout a number of domains, and we’re excited to chart the course for his subsequent chapter.”
Based by CAA veteran Dill and WME alum Shapiro, who met as youngsters at summer time camp, Black Field reps a various roster of writers, administrators, actors, comedians, documentarians and creators throughout movie, tv, digital and branded content material. Different notable shoppers embrace John Patton Ford (Emily the Prison, Huntington), Tone Bell (Set off Warning, Survival of the Thickest), Harper Dill (Marry Me), Lisa Cortes (Little Richard: I Am The whole lot), Luke Korem (Milli Vanilli) and Michael B. Nichols (The Excellent Spouse), to call only a few.
Aslan continues to be repped by CAA.
