Frederick P. Bimbler is a transactional entertainment lawyer, representing celebrities, producers, writers, directors and financiers in all entertainment arenas – live stage theatre, motion picture, traditional and broadband television, digital media and e-commerce.  Mr. Bimbler also provides outside business affairs counsel to one of the world’s largest talent agencies.

Broadway legal work, as production counsel or for a producer/financier, includes: Jesus Christ Superstar (2012); Evita (2012); Leap of Faith; High (Kathleen Turner); Looped (Valerie Harper); A Tale of Two Cities; Xanadu: The Musical; Hot Feet; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; The Drowsy Chaperone; Sarah Jones Bridge & Tunnel; Grey Gardens; Spring Awakening; Whoopi; Prymate; A Raisin in the Sun; Our Town; Urban Cowboy: The Musical; I’m Not Rappaport; and Dame Edna: The Royal Tour.

Selected Off-Broadway production counsel credits: Tommy Tune’s White Tie & Tails; The Syringa Tree; Avow; and Boys in the Band.

Other stage projects include: The King’s Speech (London), Flashdance: The Musical (London); Wishful Drinking National Tour; and the Xanadu National Tour.

Upcoming stage projects include: Chaplin: The Musical; The King’s Speech (Broadway); and Ness: The Musical.

Film production credits include: 2012 Best Picture Oscar Nominee The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, Director, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn); Fair Game (Doug Liman, Director, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts); Perfect Holiday (Queen Latifah, Terrence Howard); Tent City USA (OWN); No One Dies in Lily Dale (HBO); I Am An Animal: The Ingrid Newkirk Story (HBO).

Television production credits include: Amish: Out of Order (NatGeo); Skin to the Max (Cinemax); American Gypsies (NatGeo); Repossessed! (NatGeo); Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane (E!); Really Rich Real Estate (VH1).

In the digital arena, Mr. Bimbler represents LatinWE Productions, LLC for, among other things, programming on broadband television channel NuevON, a venture with Electus.  Premiere programming includes: Mi Vida con Toty (a documentary by filmmaker Manolo Gonzalez Vergara about his life with his mother, Sofia) and Yes You Can with Chaban (with From Fattie to Hottie author Alejandro Chaban).  He also represents nuevomall.com, a Hispanic celebrity-focused e-commerce website, slated for launch in late 2012. 

Individual clients include Carrie Fisher (actress & writer); Sofia Vergara (Modern Family); David Fumero (One Life to Live); Raul “El Gordo” Molina (Host, El Gordo y La Flaca); Alejandro Chaban (de Gordo a Glan); Frank Sepe; and Brad Lamm. 

BAR ADMISSIONS

New York (1994)

EDUCATION

• University of Miami, 1989, Coral Gables, FL, B.F.A. in Theatre Management
• Fordham University, 1994, New York, NY, J.D., Articles & Notes Editor, Fordham Urban Law Journal

ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

League of American Theaters and Producers, Affiliate Member