Nicole Compas brings her native New Yorker’s touch to Ramo’s bicoastal representation of indie productions, writers, producers, and directors by leading the firm’s New York office. She represents numerous clients in projects with Netflix and HBO such as Imagine Documentaries and Push It Productions.
As production counsel, Compas leverages her dealmaker skills for clients working on multiple platforms on the East and West coasts. Her credits over the past decade span more than 100 independent films, TV series and specials, new media, documentaries and music, including High Maintenance, Wild, Wild Country, The Rental, All Day and a Night, Ben Is Back, Wig, Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, Tiffany Haddish presents They Ready and Beasts of the Southern Wild, which earned Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.
Compas began and grew her entertainment law career at Gray Krauss Sandler Des Rochers, LLP in New York City. She advises clients on all aspects of development, financing, production and distribution.
Capabilities
- Development deal negotiations
- Distribution agreements
- Film and TV production financing
- Production legal for producers, productions and other clients
Select Clients
- Push It Productions
- Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, 2019
- Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready, 2019-Present, Netflix
- Tiffany Haddish Presents: Black Mitzvah, 2019
- Imagine Documentaries
- Lucy & Desi, 2022 Sundance
- Rebuilding Paradise, 2020 Sundance
- D. Wade Life Unexpected, 2020
- On Pointe, 2020, Disney+
- Laugh Out Loud Productions
- Lil Kev, upcoming
- Die Hart, 2020-Present, Amazon
- Matador Content
- Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, 2021
- Wig, 2019
- The Jim Henson Company
- Slumberkins, 2022-Present, Apple TV+
- Harriet the Spy, 2021-Present, Apple TV+
- Hello Sunshine
- Something from Tiffany’s, 2022
- Yale Productions
- As They Made Us, 2022
- Panama, 2022
- The Survivalist, 2021
Select Projects and Deals
Features
- 2023 Tribeca premieres BS High, Bucky Fcking Dent,* Carlos, Diarra from Detroit, and Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
- 2022 TIFF selections Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
- 2022 Tribeca selections Alone Together, Leave No Trace, and Space Oddity
- 2022 SXSW selection We Feed People
- 2022 Sundance Grand Jury winner Nanny and selections Resurrection and Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Panama starring Mel Gibson, 2022
- 2021 TIFF Special Tribute winner Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over and selection Montana Story
- 2021 Tribeca Paper & Glue
- 2021 Cannes selection, the anthology The Year of the Everlasting Storm
- 2021 SXSW The Spine of Night
- 2021 Sundance selections On the Count of Three and Superior
- Chick Fight, 2020
- Derek DelGaudio’s In and Of Itself, 2020
- The Rental, 2020
- Gossamer Folds, 2020
- All Day and A Night, 2020
- Wig, 2019
- Light of My Life, 2019
- Alex Strangelove, 2019
- Ben Is Back, 2018
- Art of Style, 2018
- Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, 2018
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, 2011
- Machete, 2010
TV
- Harriet the Spy, 2021-present, Apple TV+
- Hart to Heart, 2021-present, Peacock
- High Maintenance, 2016-2020, HBO
- Disney Family Sundays, 2019-2020, Disney+
- WildWild Country, 2018, Netflix
Standup Specials
- Ms. Pat: Y’all Wanna Hear Something Crazy, 2022
- Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready, 2020 Emmy nominee
- Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah, 2020 Emmy nominee
- Fortune Feimster: Sweet and Salty, 2020
- Kevin Hart: Zero F**ks Given, 2020
- Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, 2019 Emmy nominee
- Lil Rel Howery Live in Crenshaw, 2019
- Dan Soder: Son of a Gary, 2019
Awards & Recognitions
Speaking Engagements
- Guest speaker for an entertainment law class at Touro College, 2023
- Guest advisor at the 2023 Sundance Producers Incentive
Affiliations
- NYWIFT, Member
- PEFA, Member
- Sundance Catalyst, 2021 Spring Slate Consulting Lawyer
Bar Admissions
Education
- Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, cum laude, J.D.
- New York University, B.A.
