Gayle Nachlis, who spent three a long time as a William Morris agent earlier than serving as government director after which senior director of training at Ladies in Movie, has died. She was 72.
Nachlis died Sunday of throat most cancers at her house in Lengthy Seashore, California, her household introduced.
Nachlis joined WMA in 1975 as an assistant to the agent who dealt with Fairness contracts within the theater division. She finally dealt with the entire company’s regional theaters west of the Mississippi and all its summer season inventory within the U.S. and assisted the New York workplace with Broadway and off-Broadway productions.
She segued to movement photos after which turned a vp within the tv division, the place she represented the likes of Hector Elizondo, Jean Good and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
In late 2005, Nachlis left WMA and was named government director of Ladies in Movie. Within the new place, she oversaw working committees and established ties with native companies, donors and associated not-for-profit companions and universities.
“I’d at all times been within the nonprofit world, however I’d had so little free time to commit, as a result of an agent’s job is so extremely time-consuming,” she informed Backstage again then. “This was an amazing alternative to do one thing that I’ve at all times wished to do.”
Nachlis segued to senior director of training in 2015 and retooled WIF’s mentoring and internship applications earlier than retiring in 2019.
Born in New York Metropolis on June 9, 1951, Gayle Ann Rosenbluth was raised in Nice Neck on Lengthy Island. She moved along with her household to the West Coast for highschool, attended UC Berkeley and graduated from UCLA with a level in theater arts.
“Gayle had an infectious pleasure about her,” her household famous. “From the boardroom to youth soccer sidelines to cocktail events, Gayle was the particular person you wished to be subsequent to. She at all times had the reply to any query, from ‘Who was that actor that was in that one factor’ to ‘The place are my keys?’ to ‘What’s a six-letter phrase for troublesome?’”
Survivors embody her youngsters, Alex and Sara, and their respective spouses, Meredith and Brad; her grandchildren, Rosalind and Cai; her mom, Ruth; her sisters, Meryl and Barbara; and her brothers-in-law, Stephen and Roy.
Her husband of 35 years, Marvin Nachlis, a lawyer and highschool math trainer, died in 2013 at age 63 from ALS.
Donations in her reminiscence will be made to Ladies in Movie.