Zenith Film Group
Created by Nicholas
Cokas and
Michael Albanese
255 West 12th Street #1W
New York, NY 10014
212 414 0209
mail@zenithfilmgroup.com
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently holds the position of A&R Manager for the independnt record label Rescue Records (www.RescueRecords.net). His resume includes: Producer of Le Chase with Tori Spelling, Producer of the staged reading of Turning Night In The Dying House with Richard Easton (Tony Award) and Logan Marshall-Green (The Traveler - ABC, The Great Raid - Miramax), Assistant Post-Production Coordinator on Wild Orchid starring Mickey Rourke and Jacqueline Bisset (LA), Production Manager/Coordinator-Additional Photography and Post-Production on the independent feature Follow Me Outside (NY), Assistant Director of the 5th Avenue Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls starring Gregory Harrison and Matthew Arkin (Seattle), Once In A Blue Moon (short) with Marty Cohen (Dreamworks) and worked with Crossroads Films (LA). Nicholas also served as Creative Director of the not-for-profit children’s charity Colors of Love founded by international Maybelline model Tomiko Fraser and was a special education teacher in San Mateo County (CA). While in constant collaboration with business partner and writer Michael Albanese, he has also been instrumental in the development of Albanese’s original screenplays What Do You Want From Me?, La Strada del Vino (Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist), the play Turning Night In the Dying House, Zenith Pimp (Sundance Lab Semi-Finalist) and The Paper Wall, a project he conceived for legendary Greek actor Lakis Lazopoulos. He also conceived the original documentary on the life of New York City Ballet dancer Jock Soto. As an actor, he has performed on Broadway in Blood Brothers starring David and Shaun Cassidy, Petula Clark and the legendary Carol King, Once Upon a Mattress with Sara Jessica Parker and Jane Krakowski, Guys and Dolls directed by Jerry Zaks and starred in the international musical sensation Mamma Mia! at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Nicholas collaborated on The Reunion for The Factory and Missing Daniel for Madonna’s Maverick Entertainment. He graduated cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in theatre and an emphasis in Economics and Accounting.