Stephen Gates

TV Writing Visiting Faculty

Stephen Gates, NYU TSOA’92 MFA, began his film career as 2 ^nd asst. & 1 ^st asst. cameraman and member of IATSE Local 600 in New York.  Upon moving to Los Angeles,  Stephen worked in the Story Dept. at Arnold Kopelson Prods writing script coverage.  He started his representation career as an assistant to a motion picture literary agent at ICM.  As part of a 5 year career as a Motion Picture Lit. agent, Stephen worked at the Susan Smith Agency and Writers & Artists Agency.  As a Literary Manager, Stephen ran Evolution Entertainment’s Lit Dept. for 16 years and then co-founded his own management company Ellipsis Entertainment Group.