- Marcie Cleary
- Partner, Entertainment Group / Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Marcie Cleary is a partner in the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit, where she negotiates and structures deals for clients in the film, television, digital, and book publishing industries. Her clients include actors, news correspondents, writers, directors, producers, authors, podcasters and influencers. Ms. Cleary has significant experience representing comedians in deals for stand-up specials, television and digital series, motion pictures, and recorded albums. She represents a number of successful podcast creators, hosts, on-air talent, and producers, as well as underlying rights holders. She is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading entertainment lawyers, including by The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Legal 500, Super Lawyers, and Business Insider. Ms. Cleary is a member of the New York University Lawyer Alumni Mentoring Program Advisory Board, the Harlem School of the Arts Associate Board, and the Board of Comedy Gives Back. She was previously a past lecturer at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.