Notes From the Rep Biz ~ 11/13/2026

A rising comedian to WME! A major podcaster heads to CAA! Content creators and entrepreneurs to UTA! Plus, Olivia Wilde’s next casts an Emmy winner and our Artist of the Month volunteers as tribute! All this and more in today’s Notes From the Rep Biz… 

At WME:

Actor and comedian Jeremy Culhane is now agented by WME. Culhane first became a featured player for SNL in 2025 and his Tucker Carlson impression and character Mr. On Blast for Weekend Update. He kicked off this season with the “North High” sketch which featured Jalen Brunson. A veteran of the LA improv scene, Culhane made many appearances at UCB.

Writer-director J. Zachary Thurman is also a new sign for the agency. Thurman rose to fame with the horror short films It Helps about a strange sleep machine, and Finley about a demonic puppet. Thurman is currently working on turning It Helps into a feature, produced by Scott Derickson and C. Robert Cargill, additionally he will be directing Michael Jones’ horror script Crush which appeared on 2024’s Black List.

At CAA:

Writers/producers Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril are now repped by CAA. The duo are Inuit filmmakers and the creators and showrunners of Netflix’s half hour comedy series North of North. The series was nominated for Best New Comedy Series at the 41st Film Independent Spirit Awards and won Best Comedy and Best Comedy writing at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards.   

Podcaster and entrepreneur Alex Cooper has landed at the Death Star. Cooper is best known as the host of the podcast Call Her Daddy. But that’s not all Cooper and her husband Matt Kaplan (also now repped by CAA) have created the media company Unwell which produces podcasts, TV and Film.   

At UTA:

Internet personality Coach Jackie J has signed with UTA. Jackie Johnston aka Jackie J is a TikTok and Instagram sensation with over 1.5 million followers across the two platforms, Jackie J provides commentary and interviews all about women in sports. Johnston just launched the Is She Game podcast on October 9th and interviewed Billie King for the first episode. 

Another internet personality and entrepreneur Liv Schreiber is also a new sign for UTA. Schreiber is the creator behind the social platforms Hot and Social and Hot and Single and has partnered with MLB and New York Mets to host Singles Night at Citi Field. Additionally, Schreiber has created the women’s only sleepaway retreat called Camp Social which reportedly sold roughly 1,400 tickets in six hours.

OTHER NOTES AROUND TOWN

Verve has signed filmmaker Jordan Downey. Downey is the writer/director behind streaming smash hit The Cycle. The film follows a forensic anthropologist (Deborah Ann Woll) whose father’s body turns up at a horrific crime scene. The thing is, her father has been missing for 34 years. The film has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and was even praised by Stephen King. Next up is the sci-fi film Override starring Frank Grillo and Maria Bakalova.

Actress Geena Meszaros is now managed by Anonymous Content. Meszaros first came to fame in Clea Duvall’s series High School. However, she’s being hyped because she is the star of the buzzy Netflix series The Body which just dropped this week. The thriller series follows a Catholic school’s dance team in the early 2000s after an initiation goes wrong. Meszaros was also the star of the Netflix series Wayward opposite Toni Collette. 

MUSIC NOTES

Rapper Thekidszn is now agented by THE·TEAM. Thekidszn’s single “IMPULSIVE” was first released in February of this year, but a remix version was released last month and hit 98 on the Billboard 100 and has already racked up over 33 million streams on Spotify. 

SPORTS NOTES

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk is now repped by Drew Rosenhaus.

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has signed with The Familie.

CASTING NOTES

Kate O’Flynn has been cast in upcoming Christmas comedy Naughty, directed by Olivia Wilde. O’Flynn is best known for her work on Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay which landed her an Emmy win for Best Supporting Actress. Written by Jimmy Warden, Naughty also stars Jennifer Anniston and Peter Dinklage and is about a single mother who has to get Santa Claus (Dinklage) to testify in her custody hearing.

Hot thriller script Seeker is starting to round out its cast with Obsession’s Cooper Tomlinson, Happy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe, and Mika Abdalla. The film, written by Michael Learner and directed by Adam Rehmeir is about an Uber driver whose mysterious passenger might be responsible for the disappearance of his wife five years ago. 

ARTIST OF THE MONTH

It’s fair to say that any young actor who ends up in The Hunger Games franchise will become a star, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth all became mega stars following the release of the first film in 2012. But other actors who appeared in the franchise also took off, including Sam Claflin and Alan Ritchson. Next week a new Hunger Games film The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will drop and our artist of the month, Molly McCann, is one of the tributes.

Hailing from Ireland, McCann is only fifteen years-old but has been working steadily since she was little. Starting in 2018 with the drama Rosie and science fiction film Vivarium the following year. Her true breakout role was the drama Herself in 2020 which premiered at that year’s Sundance Film Festival and landed her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Irish Film and Television Awards. She’s done voicework in Star Wars: Visions, and appeared in Apple TV’s Bad Sisters. But her biggest role yet is the Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping where she will play Louella McCoy, the female tribute from District 12 opposite Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada, played by Woody Harrelson in the original four films).

McCann is repped by United Agents and if history is any indication her star will only rise further from here.

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Sources: Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Variety, Celebrity Access, Music Row, Billboard, Pollstar

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