E. Brian Dobbins

For the past 19 years, E. Brian Dobbins has been a Talent and Literary Manager at Artists First.   

A native of Long Beach, California, Dobbins graduated from UCLA with a degree in English. Dobbins began his career at United Talent Agency and subsequently left to work in development at HBO Pictures. His experiences at UTA and HBO led him to realize the vital nature of managers and decided to pursue a career in talent and literary management.  Dobbins left HBO and joined Interact Management where he utilized his knowledge of development in order to build a client list consisting of young and exciting writers and directors.  Eighteen months later, Dobbins added actors to his list of clients and moved to Polestar Management.  A year-and-a-half later, he joined Artists First, where he was recently named Co-President of the company. At Artists First, Dobbins has expanded his management career to also include producing.  His producing credits include Fox’s TV series “Do Not Disturb,” the Oxygen cable network series “Campus Ladies,” and the film “The Sea of Trees”, starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Gus Van Sant, which premiered at Cannes. Dobbins currently serves as an Executive Producer on the critically-acclaimed ABC series “Black-ish”, created by client Kenya Barris that also stars clients Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson.