Broadway International Musical Academy

Lynda is known in the entertainment industry and in her personal life as a true warrior. She is a well educated, experienced, dedicated literary and talent agency owner who asks nothing less from her team or clients than she is willing to do herself.
Her life is an open book. She never intended on having a 17 year plus career in the entertainment industry.
She stumbled upon this path after life changed quite dramatically for her as a young mother and registered nurse . Lynda now a mother of 7 children ( 6 of whom are adopted) and the grandmother of two is a transplant to Los Angeles from the Philadelphia area.

Lynda is living with the HIV virus. A disease she aquired occupationally as a Registered Nurse in 1992. She began her family with her husband Tony through adoption at the age of 24. Her daughter, Ashley, first caught the acting bug and appeared OffBroadway at the age of 6. Lynda accepted a position as a talent manager with a NJ talent management firm and as her daughters aspirations climbed in the business; Lynda found that her days of bedside nursing were coming to an end due to the health hazards and her weakened immune system combination. Talent Management was something she excelled at with clients appearing in Broadway shows and National Tours, in studio feature films, national commercials and regional theatre. She had already attained her MBA in marketing and management from Eastern University in 2002.
She had had an illustrious career as an international public health advocate, world renowned speaker, adjunct College professor in Ethics and Leadership and became a published author several times over. She even helped to effect lasting change with the passage of The Federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act under President Bill Clinton in 2000. She had fought tirelessly to make sure that accidents that happened to her were minimized in the workplace for all healthcare workers.
It was apparent that her leadership strengths, teambuilding efforts, advocacy experience and efforts in working with executives, mid level management, staff and individuals could be parlayed into another avenue…a new passion….the entertainment industry proved to be the perfect fit!
Never ever representing her own children in the business , never wanting to be viewed as a “momager” was key to Lynda’s own personal strategy and plan. She aligned herself with the best of the best in talent management and agenting to gain experience most times working on a voluntary basis. In 2008 , after relocating to Los Angeles, Lynda opened a partnership of a bicoastal talent management company that literally changed her life. That company was extremely successful and instrumental in launching some of the hottest most marketable & memorable talents that continue to work today in film, television and on Broadway. However in 2013 the HIV virus caught up with Lynda and affected her capacity to function. Diagnosed with neurological complications, she lost her drivers license and was physically affected in strength and mobility. Her medication regime needed to be changed and it took a long time to accomplish this. All through many challenging medical experiences and experiments , while her body was slowly accepting the changes Lynda almost died twice. However through the Grace of God and a fabulous medical team at UCLA, In 2016 she began to slowly put her life back together. She had urgently left her company behind in 2013 at the pinnacle of its success and began to slowly get reaquainted in the industry quietly and steadliy heading up another management division for a CA firm and then ultimately transitioning into film preproduction, talent aquistion and coordination. Understanding both sides of the business became a crucial key success benchmark for her trajectory. Lynda left production behind to become a talent agent for a boutique agency in the Spring of 2018 to brush up on her contract negotiation skills and test the environment that had been shifting and changing so rapidly since her sudden departure. Ultimately, she knew that entrepreneurial situations suited her best and with a strong compass and sense of purpose, coupled with direction and advise from industry icons she values to this day, she decided it was time to strike out on her own.
With past clients having major success in Feature Film Production, Bookings in: Studio Films, Series Regular Roles for Network Television Series and Childrens Network Series, Broadway Shows , National Commercials and Streaming Series etc, she is well versed in all aspects of the entertainment industry. Each client she has ever represented is still carried with her in some small way today. Some have even remained as clients through her various iterations since those early days in NJ. She believes that each life experience presents itself for a reason. The good, the challenging, the celebratory and the heartbreaking. She believes that there is light if you seek it and create alliances to support that opportunity- a light that empowers, lifts up, renews and allows us to overcome obstacles in the way.
Lynda is passionate about working with each and every client and has assembled a phenomenal experienced team of professionals to meet the SST literary and performance clients where they are in their stage of development and move that needle forward. She is an avid volunteer for many local Foster Care and Adoption Organizations as well as occasionally publicly involved on a national level in continuing HIV education efforts.. She is active with the Talent Managers for Actors and Child Actors 101 education Groups as well as many other industry committees to support up and coming actors, writers and performers. Privately and publicly, she encourages them to be true to themselves, to consistently train, to do the work, to keep fighting the good fight and never give up! She implores them to take every opportunity to show up to book the room! She applies the same mottos she has lived and worked by in all areas of her life both professionally and personally and quite frankly expects nothing less of her team or her clients!