M. Kilburg Reedy << back to list of attorneys
Associate mkreedy@cdas.com
Admitted: New York

M. Kilburg Reedy is a transactional attorney who practices in all aspects of general entertainment law and intellectual property, including publishing, film, television, copyright, trademark, and music, with a focus on theater-related transactions and financing. She began her entertainment law practice in 1995 at the law firms of Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz and Leavy Rosensweig & Hyman. From 2000 to 2005, she served as Director of Business and Legal Affairs for Eric Krebs Productions, Inc., where she acted as production counsel for over a dozen theatrical productions both on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and continued to represent clients in all areas of entertainment law as a solo practitioner. She joined Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard in July 2006.

Broadway legal work (for the production, producer, or rights holder) includes: Hairspray and Triumph of Love (for lead producer Margo Lion); The Color Purple (for underlying rights holder Warner Bros.); Chicago (for production and lead producers Barry and Fran Weissler, Broadway and national and international tours); Bill Maher: Victory Begins At Home (for production and lead producer Eric Krebs); Electra with Zoë Wanamaker, and It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues (for production and producers Elizabeth Williams, Anita Waxman, Eric Krebs, and Dr. Lawrence Horowitz); and Paul Simon's Capeman.
Off-Broadway legal work (for the production, producer, or rights holder) includes: Toxic Audio, Rounding Third, Langston Hughes's Little Ham, Tallulah Hallelujah! (with Tovah Feldshuh), and The Big Bang (for production and lead producer Eric Krebs); Visiting Mr. Green (for playwright Jeff Baron); The Donkey Show (for production and lead producer Jordan Roth); An Empty Plate in the Café du Grande Boeuf and Beautiful Thing (for production and lead producer Roy Gabay); and Snakebit, Danny and Faye, and De La Guarda (for producer Daryl Roth).
Legal counsel to individual creative artists including: playwright Matthew Burnett (Theophilus North); opera composer/librettist Paula Kimper (Patience and Sarah, The Captivation of Eunice, The Bridge of San Luis Rey); playwright/composer Michael Roberts (Golf: The Musical; The Fartiste).
Legal consultant to various not-for-profit theater companies, including Keen Company and Amas Musical Theatre.
Has lectured on theater law for Commercial Theater Institute (New York City); and on legal issues for creative writers for Wilkes University (Wilkes-Barre, PA).
Associate Member, League of American Theaters and Producers.
Associate Member, The Dramatists Guild of America.
B.A., University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts (Minneapolis), 1979.
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1992 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).
   

Practice Areas

> Entertainment
> Trademark
> Commercial
> Copyright
> Art
> Publishing

 

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