User:ZarinaStudios/sandbox/Kevin Conroy Scott

Biography
Kevin Conroy Scott was born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, where he graduated from Buffalo Grove High School in 1992. He graduated from University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Advertising in 1996. He earned his MA in Film History from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2001.

He currently resides in Brixton, South London and is the co-founder of the literary agency Tibor Jones & Associates. Kevin recently wrote and directed the micro budget featurette, THE DUNNS OF BRIXTON, set exclusively in Brixton, working with local actors and non-professionals.

Career
Kevin Conroy started his career in 1997 in the New Line Cinema Mailroom in LA before relocating to their London office as Script Editor. He wrote and directed two short films while living in Sarasota, Florida: Independence Day (1999) and Woo! A Day in Tampa Bay (1999) with the help of Dick Burns at the Sarasota Film Society, both films were photographed and edited by Miles Larsen, a local filmmaker. When Scott relocated to the United Kingdom he began his agenting career at Conville & Walsh in 2003 before joining AP Watt in 2006.

Scott co-founded Tibor Jones & Associates in 2007 with his wife, Landa Acevedo-Scott. In the same year, they also co-founded the influential Colombiage festival, introducing Colombian culture to the UK. This included Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s first trip to the UK as well as Bomba Estereo’s first trip to Europe. As a literary agent, he’s placed authors on the shortlists of the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and had a winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize as well as the Nestle Children’s Prize. He’s also represented leaders in their field like Hisham Matar, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Johnny Marr, Olafur Eliasson, Hala Jaber, Jarvis Cocker, Guillermo Arriaga and Bernard Sumner.

In 2012 Tibor Jones bought The Charles Pick Consultancy, the literary agent of Wilbur Smith. Since taking on Wilbur Smith’s legacy project, Kevin has negotiated several landmark publishing deals and overseen Wilbur Smith working with co-authors, securing his publishing legacy with a two-book a year frontlist deal until 2027.

In 2014 Scott established Tibor Jones Studio, a boutique fiction packager for the children’s market. Successes have included the detective comedy AGATHA ODDLY series (HarperCollins, 2018) and the Berlin cold war thriller, THE BOY BEHIND THE WALL (Flame Books, 2021)

Scott established the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize which lead to Nathan Filer’s THE SHOCK OF THE FALL winning the Costa Best Novel Award (2014) as well as Avni Doshi’s BURNT SUGAR being shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2021).

Scott’s journalism has appeared in THE NEW STATESMEN, VARIETY, WRITTEN BY, THE BOOKSELLER, WHITEFOX and LA WEEKLY and his collection of interviews with screenwriters like Michael Haneke, David O. Russell, Ted Tally, Scott Frank, Alexander Payne and Wes Anderson, SCREENWRITERS’ MASTERCLASS, was published by Faber & Faber (2005).