EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and activist Ani DiFranco has signed with Artists First, with an eye toward expanding her resume in film, television and theatre. A feminist icon whose music blends folk, punk, funk, and jazz influences, DiFranco broke new ground in 1990, when she…

EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has upped Katie Zipkin-Leed to Manager, we can tell you first. Zipkin-Leed is a Los Angeles native who graduated from Tulane University with a double major in Marketing and Legal Studies in Business. She began her career in the industry as an Agent Trainee at UTA…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Bartlett, host of The Diary Of A CEO podcast and star of the UK version of Shark Tank, has signed with WME for global representation. The deal has been agreed after Bartlett has been entertaining interest from U.S. agents since last year. He hopes to be able to expand The Diary…

EXCLUSIVE: Belmont Cameli has signed with Gersh for representation. Cameli will soon be seen in Until Dawn, a Sony Pictures adaptation of the popular video game of the same name. Directed by David F. Sandberg, Belmont stars in the film alongside the likes of Peter Stormare, Michael Cimino, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Avalon-backed The Agency, which represents the likes of Russell T Davies and Sally Wainwright, has promoted Katie Haines and Judy Edmonds to run the company. The pair become Joint MDs and will be joined by senior agents Ian Benson and Emily Hickman on the board. Agents Simon Blakey…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Cowell’s agency YMU is shedding some weight by selling its accountancy firm via a management buyout (MBO). The deal, for which financial terms were undisclosed, comes a year after YMU was sold to private lending firm Permira Credit under a £60M ($73M) deal. YMU Business…

EXCLUSIVE: Atlanta-based talent agency People Store has rebranded as Formation Talent Agency, brining in veteran agent Lauren Williams to serve as Senior Vice President of Talent amidst this evolution. Said agency President Rick Estimond on the rebrand, “The word ‘formation’ really captures…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran literary agent Ian Greenstein is joining Innovative Artists. He is coming off a decade at Gersh, most recently as Co-Head of Television Literary. Te majority of his clients are expected to follow him to Innovative. Greenstein was a senior agent at Broder, Kurland, Webb and…

EXCLUSIVE: Thruline Entertainment has hired Abby Johnson and Kimberly Kottwitz as talent managers. The duo, who most recently worked together at Brave Artists Management, co-represent several clients together. They also maintain separate client lists consisting largely on younger and diverse…

EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald is looking to bolster its presence across unscripted content and literary representation with two hires in the agency’s Los Angeles office. Sean Zeid has joined as Vice President of Unscripted Talent and Content, with Peter Jarvis coming aboard as a Literary Agent. Zeid comes…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Randolph has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Randolph made her television series debut in the Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone prequel series 1923 for Paramount+ alongside Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. The Western drama continues the story of the now iconic…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Talent, the London talent agency to stars including Daniel Craig and Josh O'Connor, took a profit hit after the U.S. strikes amid ongoing speculation about its desire to sell. The Duncan Heath-run company posted a pre-tax profit of £4.5M ($5.6M) in the 12 months to the end…