Nicole Compas
Partner
- Profile
- Select Clients and Projects
- Awards/Recognitions
- Credentials
Nicole brings her native New Yorker’s touch to Ramo Law PC’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, Apple, Hulu and HBO such as Imagine Documentaries, Concordia and Push It Productions.
As production counsel, Nicole 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 “Jim Henson: Idea Man”, “Girls State”, “Diarra From Detroit,” “The Dynasty: New England Patriots” “Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman,” “Frida,” “Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer,” “Unstoppable” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the winner of a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.
Select Clients
- Push It Productions (“Wanda Sykes: Not Normal,” “Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready,” “Tiffany Haddish Presents: Black Mitzvah”)
- Imagine Documentaries (“Lucy & Desi,” “Rebuilding Paradise,” “D. Wade: Life Unexpected,” Disney+ docuseries “On Pointe”)
- Laugh Out Loud Productions (“Die Hart,” “Lil Kev”)
- Matador Content (“Billie Eillish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” “Wig”)
- The Jim Henson Company (“Harriet the Spy,” “Slumberkins”)
- Hello Sunshine (“Something from Tiffany’s”)
- Yale Productions (“As They Made Us,” “Panama,” “The Survivalist”)
Select Projects and Deals
Features
- 2023 Tribeca premieres “BS High,” “Bucky F*cking 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
- AppleTV series “Harriet the Spy,” 2021-present
- “Hart to Heart,” 2021-present
- HBO’s “High Maintenance,” 2016-2020
- “Disney Family Sundays,” 2019-2020
- “Wild, Wild Country,” 2018
Standup Specials
- "Ms. Pat: Y’all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?” 2022
- “Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready,” a 2020 Emmy nominee
- “Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah,“ a 2020 Emmy nominee
- “Fortune Feimster: Sweet and Salty,” 2020
- “Kevin Hart: Zero F**ks Given,” 2020
- “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal,” a 2019 Emmy nominee
- “Lil Rel Howery Live in Crenshaw,” 2019
- “Dan Soder: Son of a Gary,” 2019
Awards/Recognitions
- NY Women’s Impact Report, Variety, 2023
- Variety’s 2022 Legal Impact Report
Speaking Engagements
- Guest speaker for an entertainment law class at Touro College, 2023
- Guest advisor at the 2023 Sundance Producers Intensive
Affiliations
- New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), Member
- PEFA, Member
- Sundance Catalyst, 2021 Spring Slate Consulting Lawyer
Bar Admissions
- New York State Bar
Education
- J.D., Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, cum laude
- Touro Law Review
- Clinical intern for Honorable Peter Skelos of the Appellate Division of New York, Second Judicial Department
- B.A., New York University