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Daniel Sladek(I)

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  • Manager
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Daniel Sladek
Daniel Sladek is the Emmy Award and Producers Guild Award nominated executive producer of the critically acclaimed film "Prayers For Bobby" starring Sigourney Weaver, and winner of the 2010 GLAAD Award and Prism Award. He served as co-executive producer of VH1's documentary special "Ricky Martin: Behind the Scenes of the Vegas Residency". Sladek was also consulting producer on the Fox reality series "Q'viva" from Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment starring Jamie King, Jennifer Lopez & Mark Anthony. Sladek was also consulting producer of "Q'Viva Live at Mandalay Bay".

Daniel Sladek is also a well established personal manager representing actors, writers and directors, including legendary director Jamie King (Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour; Madonna's longtime creative director; multiple tours for superstars including Britney Spears; Rihanna; The Spice Girls, etc.) www.jamiekingofficial.com. Other clients include National Book Award winning author James Carroll www.jamescarroll.net and actor / writer / director Doug McKeon (On Golden Pond).

In addition to production and management, Daniel Sladek Entertainment brokers select literary publishing deals, film & television distribution deals as well as provides consulting services for licensing & brand development.

Prior to the creation of Daniel Sladek Entertainment, Sladek partnered with producer Silvio Muraglia to form Cine Grande Corporation. The company enjoyed a three-year relationship with USA Pictures to produce independent feature films and television programming. Sladek and Muraglia together produced four films: Dimension Films' Russell Mulcahy's Tale Of The Mummy (shot on location in Luxembourg) starring Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Christopher Lee, Gerald Butler, Jack Davenport, Shelley Duvall and Michael Lerner; USA Pictures release Sub Down, (also shot in Luxembourg) starring Stephen Baldwin, Tom Conti, Gabrielle Anwar and Kevin Connolly (Story by Muraglia and Sladek); HBO's Silent Trigger (lensed in Montreal) under the direction of Russell Mulcahy; and Dimension Films' Hidden Assassin, (shot on location in Prague) directed by Ted Kotcheff.

Prior to his Cine Grande partnership, Sladek served as Executive Vice President of Quinta Communications, where he was Executive in Charge of Production of Quinta's slate including USA Networks' thriller Voyage starring Rutger Hauer and Eric Roberts; USA Networks critically acclaimed drama Nobody's Children starring Ann Margret and Clive Owen; and Universal Pictures' Foreign Student starring Robin Givens and Marco Hofschneider.

Sladek was Vice President of Creative & Administrative Affairs at Michael Jaffe's upstart Spectacor Films where he served as Executive in Charge of Production on numerous films including HBO's Wedlock starring Rutger Hauer; Associate Producer of NBC's Shattered Trust starring Melissa Gilbert; and Co-Producer of Mad At The Moon starring Mary Stuart Masterson and Hart Bochner. Over a period of four years, Sladek participated in the development, production and distribution of over a dozen television movies and mini-series including NBC's The Hijacking Of The Achille Lauro and the NBC mini-series The Great Escape II while also supervising in-house production deals.

Over the past 25 years, Sladek has managed the careers of numerous notable artists including Marco Hofschneider (Europa, Europa), Alexandra Paul (Baywatch), Tony Award nominee Adam Cooper (Swan Lake), Tony Award nominee Ian Richardson (My Fair Lady, Gormanghast), Academy Award nominee Ian Bannen (Flight of the Phoenix, Waking Ned Devine), and British horror legend Christopher Lee (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings).

Sladek was a member of the UCLA Film and Television Dept. extension faculty for several years. He studied film at the University of Colorado at Boulder (where he was elected to the UCSU Senate) and thereafter was a Producer Fellow at the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film & Television Studies.

While studying at AFI, Sladek co-founded and was president of the entertainment industry philanthropy Young Artists United, uniting celebrities and other industry professionals in a non-profit organization dedicated to helping teens nationwide. The organization was honored with the Presidential Commission Against Drunk Driving Distinguished Service Award and won the International Broadcasting Association Commercial of the Year Award for YAU's safe sex public service campaign. A lifelong activist, Sladek was honored by Washington D.C.-based PFLAG National with the 2011 Entertainment Industry Leadership Award for his efforts championing Prayers for Bobby. The same year, Frontiers Magazine named him one of the Top Ten LGBT Community Activists. He previously served on the Los Angeles Board of Directors of the Jewish National Fund.

Daniel Sladek is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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Prayers for Bobby executive producer Daniel Sladek accepts the GLAAD Award, NYC 2010
GLAAD Award winners Daniel Sladek (L) and Chris Taaffe (R), executive producers of Prayers for Bobby, accept the award with star Sigourney Weaver, 2010 GLAAD Awards, NY
Daniel Sladek
Trevor Project Live at the Wiltern Theater red carpet arrivals - Prayers for Bobby stars Scott Bailey, Ryan Kelley, Sigourney Weaver with executive producers Chris Taaffe and Daniel Sladek
Award-winning executive producers Chris Taaffe, David Permut, Daniel Sladek on location in Michigan filming Prayers for Bobby starring Sigourney Weaver, 2009
Prayers for Bobby awards and nominations one-sheet.
Prayers for Bobby / U.S. DVD distributed by Lionsgate
GLAAD Award winners Chris Taaffe and Daniel Sladek, executive producers of Prayers for Bobby, 2010
Prayers for Bobby executive producers David Permut & Daniel Sladek red carpet arrivals 2014 PFLAG Straight for Equality Awards, Marriott Marquis Times Square, NY
Prayers for Bobby executive producers / nominees Daniel Sladek & Chris Taaffe on the red carpet at the 2010 Producers Guild of America Awards.
2010 PRISM Awards, Daniel Sladek accepting for Prayers for Bobby
2010 PFLAG NATIONAL Entertainment Industry Leadership Award recipient DANIEL SLADEK accepting at the London Hotel, West Hollywood CA

Known for

Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, and Austin Nichols in Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Prayers for Bobby
8.0
TV Movie
  • Producer
  • 2009
Rustin (2023)
Rustin
  • Producer
  • 2023
¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen (2012)
¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen
5.8
TV Series
  • Producer
Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Tale of the Mummy
4.0
  • Producer
  • 1998

Credits

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Producer

  • Rustin
    • executive producer
    • Completed
    • 2023
  • Ricky Martin: Behind the Vegas Residency (2017)
    Ricky Martin: Behind the Vegas Residency
    • co-executive producer
    • TV Movie
    • 2017
  • ¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen (2012)
    ¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen
    • supervising producer
    • consulting producer
    • TV Series
    • 2012
  • Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, and Austin Nichols in Prayers for Bobby (2009)
    Prayers for Bobby
    • executive producer
    • TV Movie
    • 2009
  • Thank Heaven (2001)
    Thank Heaven
    • co-executive producer
    • 2001
  • Tale of the Mummy (1998)
    Tale of the Mummy
    • producer
    • 1998
  • Gabrielle Anwar and Stephen Baldwin in Sub Down (1997)
    Sub Down
    • producer
    • TV Movie
    • 1997
  • Dolph Lundgren in Silent Trigger (1996)
    Silent Trigger
    • executive producer (as Daniel J. Sladek)
    • 1996
  • Dolph Lundgren and Maruschka Detmers in Hidden Assassin (1995)
    Hidden Assassin
    • executive producer (as Daniel Jakub Sladek)
    • 1995
  • Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story (1993)
    Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
    • co-producer
    • TV Movie
    • 1993
  • Mary Stuart Masterson and Hart Bochner in Mad at the Moon (1992)
    Mad at the Moon
    • co-producer
    • 1992

Production Manager

  • Ann-Margret in Nobody's Children (1994)
    Nobody's Children
    • executive in charge of production
    • TV Movie
    • 1994
  • Voyage
    • executive in charge of production
    • 1993
  • Karen Allen, Rutger Hauer, and Eric Roberts in Voyage (1993)
    Voyage
    • executive in charge of production
    • TV Movie
    • 1993

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Daniel J. Sladek
  • Born
    • 1965
    • Denver, Colorado, USA

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    Attended Thomas Jefferson High School, Denver and University of Colorado, Boulder. Was elected to the University of Colorado Student Senate as Representative-at-Large.

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