Lynda Arnold(IV)
- Manager
- Additional Crew
Lynda is known in the entertainment industry and in her personal life as a true warrior. Her career in the entertainment industry has been shaped by her roles in talent representation, industry advocacy and television/film production. However, beginning her career at Catholic University of America, later graduating from York Collège of Pennsylvania with her Bachelors in Nursing , that was not her intended choice of career trajectory.
She stumbled upon this path after life changed quite dramatically for her as a young mother and registered nurse. Lynda is a transplant to Los Angeles from the Philadelphia area. Her daughter first appeared Off-Broadway at the age of 6. Lynda began to work then with a NJ talent management firm and as her daughters aspirations climbed in the business.
She had had an illustrious career as an international public health advocate, world renowned speaker, adjunct university professor and published author, even helping to effect lasting change with the passage of The Federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act under President Bill Clinton in 2000. Earning her Masters Degree from Eastern University in Management and Marketing in 2002, Lynda accomplished all of that while being mother for three small children, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend and while living publicly with the HIV Virus she had acquired occupationally as a new graduate nurse at a small rural hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
It was apparent that her leadership strengths, team-building 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 Lynda opened a partnership with a small bi-coastal management company that literally changed her life. That company was extremely successful and instrumental in launching some of the hottest most marketable talents today in film, television and Broadway. However in 2013 the HIV virus caught up with Lynda and affected her capacity to function. 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, 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 which she professionally regretted and began to slowly get reacquainted in the industry quietly and steadily heading up another management division for a midsize talent management firm and then ultimately transitioning into film preproduction, talent acquisition and coordination. Eventually , Lynda branched out to became a talent agent for a boutique agency in the Spring of 2018 before deciding that ultimately her story was not quite done. She opened her own SAG AFTRA, WGA, AEA bi-coastal Talent and Literary Agency , Seven Stars Talent Inc and zestfully represented her artists in all areas, celebrating significant success in live theatre, television, feature films, voiceover and of course the development of new writing projects. However due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic downturn, Lynda who had become a mother of 7 children by the year 2020, 6 of whom are adopted, chose to close her agency doors and transition back into literary and talent management . She did that with pride, not regret.
In transitioning back to management with a primary focus on Literary- Her passion for live theatre is still so very engrained in her, yet always an avid reader, her writers and directors also know that her reading of their material and her relationships with producers and financiers comes from an extremely genuine and focused spot.
She is an advocate who is dedicated to excellence at every level. She is whom many continue to be excited about inviting to their table.
The reality is Lynda knows how extremely blessed she is at every level, every day to be at that table. It's a unique perspective that underlies her incredible life learning, transformative and wide reaching experiences that truly do make her a true Warrior!
It was apparent that her leadership strengths, team-building 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 Lynda opened a partnership with a small bi-coastal management company that literally changed her life. That company was extremely successful and instrumental in launching some of the hottest most marketable talents today in film, television and Broadway. However in 2013 the HIV virus caught up with Lynda and affected her capacity to function. 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, 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 which she professionally regretted and began to slowly get reacquainted in the industry quietly and steadily heading up another management division for a midsize talent management firm and then ultimately transitioning into film preproduction, talent acquisition and coordination. Eventually , Lynda branched out to became a talent agent for a boutique agency in the Spring of 2018 before deciding that ultimately her story was not quite done. She opened her own SAG AFTRA, WGA, AEA bi-coastal Talent and Literary Agency , Seven Stars Talent Inc and zestfully represented her artists in all areas, celebrating significant success in live theatre, television, feature films, voiceover and of course the development of new writing projects. However due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic downturn, Lynda who had become a mother of 7 children by the year 2020, 6 of whom are adopted, chose to close her agency doors and transition back into literary and talent management . She did that with pride, not regret.
In transitioning back to management with a primary focus on Literary- Her passion for live theatre is still so very engrained in her, yet always an avid reader, her writers and directors also know that her reading of their material and her relationships with producers and financiers comes from an extremely genuine and focused spot.
She is an advocate who is dedicated to excellence at every level. She is whom many continue to be excited about inviting to their table.
The reality is Lynda knows how extremely blessed she is at every level, every day to be at that table. It's a unique perspective that underlies her incredible life learning, transformative and wide reaching experiences that truly do make her a true Warrior!