About

Lillian LaSalle – Rodeo Queen

When Lillian LaSalle was 12, she wanted to be the first woman to ever appear on the cover of Guitar Player magazine so she bought her first guitar. She exhausted the repertoire of 80's metal by the time she was 13. She spent the next decade playing classical music instead and attended the Conservatory program at SUNY Purchase. Before that she also studied theatre at The High School of Performing Arts. It was there that she realised how much she loved being around artists.

Since she liked being the first at things, she set out to be the youngest talent agent ever franchised in New York, which she did at the age of 24. And since she also liked being the Queen of the Rodeo, she opened her own company, minding her own stable, shortly thereafter.

Now she's a gunslinging talent manager and film producer.

Her stable consists of actors, writers, directors and one composer. They are Independent Spirit, Obie, Emmy, Pulitzer, Grammy and Tony Award winners and nominees.

Her repertoire consists of these films: A dream come true, Lillian is the lead producer on her client Aasif Mandvi's feature film 7 TO THE PALACE which begins principal photography on July 9th, 2008 in New Your. Lillian has been Executive Producer of LOGGERHEADS (Sundance 2005) and SWEET LAND, (Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for writer/director client, Ali Selim) starring Alan Cumming, and Co-Producer of SOUTHERN BELLES, starring Ana Farris. She was also Executive Producer of Morgan J Freeman's JUST LIKE THE SON (with Rosie Perez), FIND LOVE, from British Director, Erica Dunton, as well as the romantic comedy UNDERDOG and MENTOR, starring Rutger Hauer. She was Co-Producer of AMERICAN CANNIBAL: THE ROAD TO REALITY, (Tribeca Film Festival, 2006).

Lillian served on the voting committee for the Independent Spirit Awards and was a programmer for the GenArt Film Festival. She twice served on the jury for the Academy Awards, Student Division as well as the IFP McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship.

Making the shift from clocking 10 hours a day in a practice room to clocking 24 hours a day as a manager was no great shakes. Somewhere in there she also gets to enjoy the babbling of her two year old Rodeo Princess and kisses from her daddy, a guitar maker extraordinaire who is already teaching the Princess her Rodeo Scales and Chords.