Michael Green is an American
talent manager
A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager, or music manager) is an individual who guides the professional career of Entertainer, artists within the entertainment industry. The responsibility of a talent manager is to ove ...
,
entrepreneur
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An entreprene ...
and
movie producer.
Career
Green began his career as a personal appearance agent in the early 1990s at Irvin Arthur Associates representing stand up comedians. He then moved to talent management at Gallin-Morey Associates, where he eventually became a Senior Manager.
[Partners: Michael Green]
. ''The Collective''.
In 1997, he co-founded
The Firm
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History
In 1979, Anna Benson founded th ...
, a music and talent management agency, with
Jeff Kwatinetz
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. The company grew rapidly, eventually managing
Backstreet Boys
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,
Korn
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,
Limp Bizkit
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,
Pamela Anderson
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and others. Expanding beyond the representation business, The Firm also acquired and sold the shoe brand
Pony
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, and controlled an equity position in
Build-A-Bear Workshop
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s. In 2002, Green sold his interests in the company to spend time with his family.
[
In 2005, he founded a new management company, The Collective. The Collective continued to represent Green’s longtime clients like ]Martin Lawrence
Martin Fitzgerald LawrenceStated in interview on '' Inside the Actors Studio'' (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor and comedian. Lawrence began his career doing comedy shows, including in '' The Improv''. After his first acting role in t ...
, and also signed Linkin Park
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, Counting Crows
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, Enrique Iglesias
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, Slash
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* Slash (punctuation), the "/" character
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Slash (Marvel Comics)
* Slash (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'')
Music
* Harry Slash & The Slashtones, an American rock band
* Nash th ...
, Alanis Morissette
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, and Emile Hirsch
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Other notable roles include '' The Girl Next Door'' (2004), '' ...
, among others. As CEO, Green expanded The Collective outside simple talent management, acquiring the horror movie site Bloody-Disgusting.com and popular YouTube accounts and personalities like Fred
Fred or FRED may refer to:
People
* Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name
Mononym
* Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French
* Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Fred ...
and Annoying Orange
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under Collective Digital Studio.[Graser, Marc]
Collective nabs Bloody-Disgusting
''Variety''. September 12, 2007.
Filmography
References
External links
The Collective homepage
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American businesspeople
Living people
American literary agents
Year of birth missing (living people)