Alan Siegel

Alan Siegel is both a talent manager and a producer. As a manager, his client list includes well-known actors of film, television, and stage. As a producer, with his longtime client and close friend Gerard Butler he has produced seven films in as many years.

Their debut feature was the psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen, directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Mr. Butler opposite Jamie Foxx. G-BASE's second project, Machine Gun Preacher, starring Mr. Butler and directed by Marc Forster, received critical acclaim for the telling of the true story of a man who became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children. This was followed by Chasing Mavericks, directed by Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted, about a young boy who successfully surfs the gigantic Mavericks waves in Northern California; and by Playing for Keeps, the romantic comedy with Mr. Butler, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman, and Dennis Quaid, directed by Gabriele Muccino.

With Millennium Films, G-BASE made Olympus Has Fallen, which established Mr. Butler in his iconic hero role of Mike Banning. The action thriller, directed by Antoine Fuqua, became one of the sleeper blockbuster hits of 2013.

The duo produced Septembers of Shiraz, a thriller depicting a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the revolution. In 2008, Mr. Siegel and Mr. Butler purchased the option rights to The New York Times bestselling book of the same name, written by Dalia Sofer. With a screenplay adaptation by Hanna Weg, the film was directed by Wayne Blair.

Mr. Siegel is on the board of Kids Kicking Cancer, the nonprofit organization which helps children with cancer manage the stress and pain of their disease and treatments through personalized coaching sessions with instruction by black belt martial artists. In addition to his Masters degree in theater from New York University, he also holds a Master of Clinical Psychology from Antioch University.

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