Randy Becker
{{Short description|American actor}}
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|spouse=Jinna Matzen (since 2007)
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Ciera Ramirez
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Randy Becker is an Emmy-nominated producer, literary manager and former American stage, television and film actor.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/theater/up-and-coming-randy-becker-a-broadway-baby-at-24.html| title=Up And Coming; Randy Becker; A Broadway Baby at 24| first=Anita| last=Gates| date=February 12, 1995| page=B2| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=April 25, 2022| url-access=subscription}}{{cite news| title=THEATER REVIEW: LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!; 'Love!' Hits Broadway Running, Like a Broadway Hit| date=February 15, 1995| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/15/theater/theater-review-love-valour-compassion-love-hits-broadway-running-like-broadway.html| newspaper=The New York Times| first=Vincent| last=Canby| author-link=Vincent Canby| page=C9| access-date=April 25, 2022| url-access=subscription}}
Becker was best known for such productions as Love! Valour! Compassion!,{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Love Valour Compassion (1997) Tenderness and Rage Residing in Men's Hearts| author-link=Stephen Holden| author=Holden, Stephen| date=May 16, 1997| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C04E5D71438F935A25756C0A961958260| url-access=subscription}} Lie Down With Dogs in 1995,{{cite news |last=James |first=Caryn |author-link=Caryn James |title=FILM REVIEW; Gay and Idle In a Summer On Cape Cod |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/28/movies/film-review-gay-and-idle-in-a-summer-on-cape-cod.html |accessdate=4 October 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=C5 |date=28 July 1995 |language=en |url-access=subscription}} Sabrina and Jack & Jill and for producing [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20770708/fullcredits/?ref%20=ttpl%20ql%201 The Great Debate with Charles Barkley] in 2022 (Emmy-nominated).
In 1995 Becker had an epileptic seizure on stage while performing in Love! Valour! Compassion! Becker's understudy finished the performance.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/04/theater/naked-on-a-broadway-stage-a-dream-no-a-debut.html| title=Naked on a Broadway Stage: A Dream? No, a Debut| newspaper=The New York Times| first=David W.| last=Dunlap| author-link=David W. Dunlap| date=February 4, 1995| page=A11| url-access=subscription}}
Early life and Career
Randy Becker is a graduate of Brown University. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, moved to the Netherlands until he was 7 years old, then spent the rest of his childhood in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, before going off to Brown University and then New York City to pursue a career in acting. He began his career in the entertainment industry as an actor, starring on Broadway in Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Award-winner) as well the Off-Broadway hit Tony and Tina's Wedding, and on film and television, before transitioning into literary representation and film/tv producing.
After leaving acting in 2001, he partnered to form Acuna Entertainment (AE), a literary management and film production company. AE's mission was to transition writers to filmmakers by giving them a chance to direct their own work. AE shared writer clients with Hollywood agencies like CAA, ICM, WME, and APA, sold film and TV to the major studios and networks, and helped raise independent capital to give their literary clients a chance to direct their own films. He helped shepherd indie films by AE clients like Lila & Eve (starring Jennifer Lopez and Viola Davis), Touched (starring Jenna Elfman), and The Great Buck Howard (starring John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hanks).
Randy went off on his own in 2009, launching NexTV Entertainment, a literary management and consulting company where he worked closely with accomplished film/TV writers, New York Times best-selling authors (HM Ward, Liliana Hart), and creative entrepreneurs. He also helped emerging writers and filmmakers break into the business with a series of industry-connected competitions. In 2010, he launched the Social Impact Conference ([https://socialimpactconference.com/ The Social Impact Conference & Expo | Entertainment & Activism: Hollywood in Action]), a yearly event that brought together artists, activists, business leaders and studio executives to discuss and find unique solutions for the day's issues. Panelists included studio presidents, Nobel Prize winners and celebrated producers, directors, writers and actors.
In 2019 Randy partnered with William Roetzheim to help him pivot his poetry publishing company, [http://www.level4press.com/ Level 4 Press], towards fiction. More specifically, to create a publishing company focused solely on books intended for film and television adaptation. Randy added a literary management division, [http://www.level4-management.com/ Level 4 Management] to Level 4 Press, bringing a group of long-time clients including Darnell Brown (Mike – Hulu) and Branyon Davis (Assisted Living, House of Payne – BET). And in 2022, helped William launch Level 4 Films, the film and television division of Level 4, designed to exploit film and television rights from the growing book library of Level 4 Press.
Since 2020, Randy has helped Level 4 literary clients make deals with MGM, Warner Bros. Television, Disney+, 20th Television, HBO, BET, Tyler Perry Studios, TNT, Amazon Studios, CBS Studios, Hulu, ABC Signature, and Audible Originals.
In 2022, Randy produced, along with basketball legend Charles Barkley, the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Great Debate with Charles Barkley (starring Charles Barkley, Spike Lee, Renee Montgomery) for TNT. A film that told the story of the six greatest players in NBA history, broken by era.
Official websites: [http://www.level4press.com www.level4press.com], [http://www.level4-management.com www.level4-management.com] , [https://socialimpactconference.com/ The Social Impact Conference & Expo | Entertainment & Activism: Hollywood in Action]
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0065561}}
- THE GREAT DEBATE WITH CHARLES BARKLEY –
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20770708/fullcredits/?ref%20=ttpl%20ql%201 The Great Debate with Charles Barkley (TV Movie 2022) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb] (Randy Becker listed as Executive Producer)
[https://awfulannouncing.com/tag/the-great-debate-with-charles-barkley The Great Debate with Charles Barkley Archives - Awful Announcing]
- Emmy Award nomination:
[https://vimeo.com/832513945/5aef41bfdb?share=copy Category 5 - The Great Debate with Charles Barkley on Vimeo44th-Sports-Quick-View-v2.pdf]
- SOCIAL IMPACT CONFERENCE:
[https://socialimpactconference.com/ The Social Impact Conference & Expo | Entertainment & Activism: Hollywood in Action]
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Category:American male stage actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:20th-century American male actors