Levity Talent Hires J.P. Buck, Emily Noonan As Managers/Producers

Matt Grobar
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EXCLUSIVE: Levity Talent has brought in J.P. Buck and Emily Noonan to serve as manager-producers, Deadline has learned.

In a statement on the hirings, Levity Founding Partner Judi Marmel said, “As Levity continues to grow year over year, our goal remains to bring the brightest comedy minds into one place to work with our talent and our brand. Having worked closely with both J.P. and Emily over the past decade, I’m beyond inspired to now work with them daily and help accelerate and grow our client’s careers.”

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A veteran producer, Buck’s career has spanned comedy, unscripted, talk, and game formats and has been built on spotlighting the next generation of domestic and international talent for the comedy industry through festival showcases, late-night appearances, and debut stand-up specials. He joins from Team Coco, where he spent the past 15 years. During his time at Conan O’Brien’s company, he served as a Supervising Producer on his TBS talk show Conan, for which he was nominated for an Emmy. He was also an EP on television, digital, audio, and live projects that helped expand O’Brien’s brand into a multi-platform media company ahead of its acquisition by SiriusXM.

The exec producer of numerous acclaimed comedy specials, Buck most recently served in that capacity for Gary Gulman’s recenr Born on 3rd Base and Rory Scovel’s upcoming hour Religion, Sex and a Few Things In Between, both for Team Coco/Max. Past television credits include Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Star Search, Ellen DeGeneres’ Even Bigger, Really Big Show and The Pete Holmes Show. In addition to his television experience, Buck has produced festivals for HBO, Just For Laughs, and TBS.

Noonan comes to Levity from Helium Entertainment, where she developed pilots and features as an associate producer. She’s spent much of her career working alongside comedian Whitney Cummings, co-producing her Netflix Special Can I Touch it?, while working on others for HBO and Comedy Central. She serves as showrunner for Cummings’ comedy podcast Good For You and has also worked with the comic on Amazon pilot Good People, as well as indie feature The Female Brain. Earlier in her career, Noonan served as an assistant to SNL’s Lorne Michaels at Broadway Video.

One of the premiere management and production companies working in comedy, Levity was founded in 2009. Around five years ago, the company acquired the iconic Improv comedy clubs, including the flagship location in Hollywood, which just celebrated its 60th anniversary. Notable clients include Fortune Feimster, Taylor Tomlinson and Bert Kreisher, to name just a few.

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