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EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with Zero Gravity’s legal response: Jake Miller and Karli Doumanis have joined production/management company 42 as talent managers, sources tell Deadline. Based in Los Angeles, they come from Zero Gravity Management. Both are bringing their client rosters, which include one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Newly minted Emmy winner Jessica Gunning has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. The signing follows Gunning’s recognition from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at the 76th annual Primetime Em…

Iris Apatow has signed with Sugar23 for representation following a highly competitive pursuit. Next up, Apatow stars alongside Douglas Booth and Alison Pill in Young Werther, an adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Classic The Sorrows of Young Werther for director José Avelino Gilles Corbett…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Cowell’s agency YMU has hired Steven Bartlett’s former manager to be a director within its global entertainment division. Lauren Clark joins from InterTalent, as the buzzy London agenting scene continues to see a spate of people moves. At InterTalent, she managed the likes of Olivia…

EXCLUSIVE: Leland Douglas, the screenwriter behind the David Gordon Green comedy Nutcrackers, has signed with Thruline Entertainment for management. Marking Ben Stiller’s first star vehicle in a few years, Nutcrackers has him playing the work-obsessed Mike, who must reluctantly travel to rural Ohio…

EXCLUSIVE: The Osbrink Agency, the Los Angeles-based boutique agency which represents actors in film, television, commercials, voiceover, print, and digital, is expanding its footprint with an office in New York. Joining the team on the East Coast are NY-based Theatrical agent, Victoria Kress, and…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor and writer John Owen Lowe for representation in all areas, Deadline has learned. Lowe recently co-created, wrote, starred in and executive produced the Netflix comedy series Unstable, alongside his father Rob Lowe and Victor Fresco. The series is loosely inspired by…

EXCLUSIVE: Obituary creator Ray Lawlor has signed with Insight Entertainment. Launched in 2023, Obituary is from APC Studios (UK) and Irish indie Magamedia for Irish pubcaster RTÉ and Hulu in the U.S. It follows Elvira (Siobhán Cullen), a young woman obsessed with death who writes obituaries for a…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed comedian, actor, author, TV personality and award-winning radio host Rickey Smiley for representation. Touring as a stand-up for more than 30 years, Smiley got his start on Def Comedy Jam and as a host of BET’s Comic View and continues to light up stages across the nation…

EXCLUSIVE: Activist Artists Management has signed actor, writer, stand-up comedian and influencer Dyon “Mojo” Brooks for representation in all areas. The multi-hyphenate will be repped at the company by Bernie Cahill and Grant Pennel. Appearing in the current season of Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘n Out…

EXCLUSIVE: YMU has made another signing, this time bringing British comedian and writer Michael Dapaah into its fold. The UK agency has signed the multi-hyphenate, who is best known for his viral comedy character ‘Big Shaq,’ whose song ‘Man’s Not Hot’ has garnered 410 million YouTube views and over…

EXCLUSIVE: Rising actor Kartiah Vergara  (Ticket To Paradise, Dora the Explorer: The Lost City of Gold) has signed with The Rosenzweig Group for representation in all areas. Vergara was recently cast in the upcoming Sarah Snook-led Peacock series All Her Fault, based on the Andrea Mara novel of the…