Jess Siegler handles dramatic (i.e., film, TV, theater) rights. He does not accept unsolicited queries and works only with our agency’s clients.

Jess is a veteran story development executive, literary scout and writer with over twenty five years of experience helping identify, acquire and develop literary properties for film, television and other media. 

He began his career in New York, working for New Line Cinema and Alan Pakula Productions, before relocating to Los Angeles, where he lived for 10 years, working as an executive for Warner Brothers, Sony and Disney. While books have always been his primary focus, he has also pursued and developed ideas from original screenplays, pitches, comic books, theater, journalism, sports, and other sources. Jess specializes in identifying great written material, working closely with writers to shape and hone that material, and seeking out the right creative partners to help bring it to the screen.

After returning home to New York, Jess worked for Fox Animation Studios (ICE AGE, RIO, HORTON HEARS A WHO) and was an in-house film/TV executive at Scholastic Media for several years, helping develop such iconic kid’s properties as GOOSEBUMPS, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS and CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, among others.

In addition to his experience as a development executive, Jess has also worked as a book scout, and has written two original TV pilots for PBS children’s television.