EXCLUSIVE: Tony Lipp and Dara Gordon have joined Entertainment 360 as partners. Lipp will also join the management board, and Gordon will open the New York office as head of office.
The hirings are a major win for the company, with Lipp and Gordon drawing interest from several management companies after the pair recently left Anonymous Content.
Lipp started his career as a talent agent at CAA where he worked from 1996-2011. In 2011, he made the transition to management and film and TV production when he joined Anonymous Content. A partner in the company, he also served as Head of the Talent Department during his tenure.
His current clients include John Lithgow, Sally Field, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Monaghan, Kate O’Flynn, Betty Gilpin, Patrick Stewart, Lewis Pullman, Joshua Jackson, Matt Bomer, Max Minghella, Jack Quaid, Patricia Clarkson, Beth Behrs, Justin Kirk, Cush Jumbo, Lauren Cohan and André Holland.
While at Anonymous Content, Lipp produced various film and television projects most recently the Netflix film Remarkably Bright Creatures, starring Field and based on Shelby Van Pelt’s New York Times bestselling novel. The pic won an Emmy Award for Best Original Movie.
He also was an executive producer on the 2018 Focus Features film Boy Erased, which starred Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Joel Edgerton.
“For over 20 years I have admired the managers and leaders of Entertainment 360 enormously. Their dedication to the artists they represent is best in class and I feel so lucky to be able to join them,” Lipp said. “I am incredibly excited to start this next chapter in my career with such thoughtful and inspiring colleagues and I am especially thrilled to be doing it alongside my dear friend, Dara Gordon.”
Gordon joined Anonymous Content in 2015 where she was a partner in the Talent Department, based in New York City.
She started her career at CAA in Los Angeles, then moved to work at Warner Bros in feature development. In 2009 she became a manager in at Authentic Talent & Literary Management in New York.
“Tony and Dara are exactly the kind of people you build a company around. Beyond their exceptional clients, they bring the experience, relationships and leadership to help shape our future. Tony has built an extraordinary career as a manager, producer and leader, and brings a depth of experience and perspective that will be invaluable to our management board,” a statement from Entertainment 360 partners reads. “Dara is equally accomplished, with tremendous instincts, an entrepreneurial spirit and a genuine passion for the artists she represents. We are thrilled to welcome them both as partners, and particularly excited for Dara to lead the expansion of our New York office, a major priority for the company.”
Gordon’s clients include Aaron Pierre, Adria Arjona, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Caitlin FitzGerald, Danny Ramirez, Emma Laird, Havana Rose Liu, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Julia Butters, Kristine Froseth, Leo Woodall, Lewis Pullman, Lili Reinhart, Melissa Benoist, Micah Stock, Orlando Norman, Rightor Doyle, Sadie Soverall and Winona Ryder.
She executive produced two seasons of the Netflix series Bonding, created by her client Doyle, as well as the Amazon feature film Birds of Paradise, directed by Sarah Adina Smith and starring Froseth.
“I have always loved being a manager, but the process of getting to know the people at Entertainment 360 has made me even more enamored by and excited about this profession,” she said. “I feel lucky to be joining this formidable group, whom I have long admired from afar, and look forward to growing together. As a fourth generation New Yorker, the opportunity to help ramp up New York office of this company is a true honor, especially at a time when this city feels even more dynamic than ever.”