Notes From the Rep Biz ~ 5/22/2026

A singing snowman to WME! A prolific comedian to CAA! An up and coming actress to UTA! Agents moving to management, casting updates on a major project from Will Smith PLUS our Artist of the Month profiles a rising talent! All this and more in today’s Notes From the Rep Biz!

At WME:

Olaf is now repped by WME! Actor, comedian, writer, and producer, Josh Gad rose to fame with his stage work particularly in Book of Mormon which earned him a Tony nomination. But kids will recognize him as the voice of the loveable snowman, Olaf in Disney’s Frozen franchise. Next up he will be starring in Spaceballs: The New One which he also co-wrote.

TV producers Rob Eric and Ramy Romany are also now repped by WME. Eric was the CCO of Queer Eye productions and partnered with Romany last year to create the production company The Creators Productions. The company’s goal is to create dating and competition formats. Projects in the works involve Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort and a competition series with Alfred Street (Project Runway) on as a producer. They are also getting into the Micro series space.

Middle distance runner Keely Hodgkinson is another new sign for the agency. Hodgkinson is the reigning Olympic champion at the 800m, for which she won the gold medal in 2024. In 2020 she won the silver medal. Outside of athletics, Hodginkson is also very interested in fashion and has been a mainstay at London and Milan fashion weeks and appearances in Elle magazine. She also has endorsement deals with Nike, Omega, and Vitality.

At CAA:

YouTuber and TikToker Max Klymenko is now agented by CAA. Klymenko is the creator of the hugely popular Career Ladder series, where he guesses the careers of the random people he meets on the street. Between TikTok and YouTube Klymenko has amassed roughly 13 million followers.

CAA has also signed soccer player Moises Caicedo. Caicedo hails from Ecuador and plays midfielder for Premier League club Chelsea and the Ecuador National team. Caicedo joined Chelsea in 2023 and in the 2024-2025 he won the Chelsea Player of the Season award. Soccer fans call him one of the best defensive midfielders in the world. He will be eligible to play in Ecuador’s 2026 world cup opener on June 14th. 

Comedian and actress Sheryl Underwood is also now agented by the Death Star. Underwood first came to fame in 1989 as the first female finalist in the Miller Lite Comedy Search. From 2011 to 2024 she was a co-host of the CBS daytime talk show The Talk. Most recently she was a stand out on Netflix’s Roast of Kevin Hart, and hosts the live podcast Politics and Punchlines 

At UTA:

Influencer Golloria George is a new sign for UTA. While in college, George started making Get Ready With Me and product reviews on TikTok and YouTube. After her TikTok criticising the cosmetic company Youthoria went viral in 2024 she completely took off. Named one of Variety’s TikTokers to discover earlier this year. She is looking to expand into modeling and entrepreneurship.

Another new sign for UTA is actress Virginie Efira. The Belgian-French actress is in two Cannes competition roles this year, Soudain (All of a Sudden directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Parallel Tales directed by Asghar Farhadi.

Actress and dancer, Maddie Ziegler is also now repped by UTA. Ziegler and her mother were on season 8 of Lifetime’s Dance Moms in 2011, from there she appeared as a dancer in multiple music videos from Sia and Todrick Hall. On the acting front Ziegler has been lauded for her roles in The Fallout and My Old Ass. She most recently appeared in the Vicky Jewson action film, Pretty Lethal.  

OTHER NOTES AROUND TOWN

WME agent Alexandra Devlin has jumped over to Entertainment 360 as a partner. It is believed most of her clients will be joining her in the new gig and her list includes: Addison Rae, Paige DeSorbo, and Amanda McCants.

UTA agent Brandon Liebman is also moving into the management game, by hopping over to Range Entertainment Partners. It is not known who will follow him to his new digs at this time, but Liebman’s client list includes: Damian Lewis, Liam Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Other moves to Range include Verve agent Felicia Prinz and Nishika Kumble who comes from the production side of things moving over from company Extracuricular Productions.

Actress Zoë Winters is now agented by Gersh. Winters came to fame by playing Kerry, Logan Roy’s secretary turned mistress on HBO’s Succession. Winters is a prolific stage actress with roles in Heroes of the Fourth Turning and the upcoming Birthright. She also appeared in this year’s The Drama and will next be seen in FX’s Seven Sisters, and is currently in production on Apple TV’s The Off Weeks.

MUSIC NOTES

DJ Taylor Torrence is now repped by the Corson Agency. Torrence has been aggressively touring lately and his latest single “3AM (Move to the Beat)” featuring Kyra Mastro released last month and has been streamed over 241,000 times. 

The Shalizi Group is now managing rapper Roddy Rich. Rich’s claim to fame was his hit single “Die Young” in 2018 which landed on the Billboard Hot 100. He won a Grammy award for best rap performance for his collaboration with Nipsey Hussle on the single “Racks in the Middle” in 2019. Last year his single “Underdog” was featured on the F1 soundtrack.  

SPORTS NOTES

LIFT Sports has signed Connecticut Sun Forward Aneesah Morrow.

Brooklyn Nets guard Kendall Brown is now agented by Gersh Sports.

CASTING NOTES

Deadline is reporting that Will Smith is set to star in David Gordon Green’s upcoming action film Supermax. Last week Amazon MGM picked up the hot project written by David Weil and David J. Rosen. Smith will play an FBI agent who is tasked with his female partner to investigate a murder in a maximum security prison. It is not yet known who will star opposite Smith in the female partner role, but the film is casting now. 

Florence Pugh will star in and produce The Midnight Library based on Matt Haig’s best selling 2020 novel about a magical library which can transport anyone into different lives. Garth Davis is set to direct with a screenplay from Laura Wade and Nick Payne. Pre-production is set to start this fall.

Casting is well underway for Netflix’s The Big Fix starring Mark Wahlberg and Riz Ahmed. The film is based on the true story of the match fixing scandal that embroiled FIFA from 2008 - 2013. Natalie Dormer, Susan Lynch, and Gabriel Leone have all joined the cast. The film is directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by Guy Bolton and Justin Haythe. 

Brian Tyree Henry and Sebastian Koch have joined the hotly anticipated  sequel, The Batman Part II. They will be alongside the now confirmed Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson. It is not known at this time who Tyree Henry and Koch will be playing, but it is known that Johansson and Stan will be playing Gilda and Harvey Dent. Robert Pattinson will be returning as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Andy Serkis as Alfred, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, and Colin Farrell The Penguin.

ARTIST OF THE MONTH

Every month we’d like to highlight an artist on the rise and primed to explode. This month Inde Navarrette has caught our attention, with her haunting, terrifying and empathetic performance as Nikki in Curry Barker’s Obsession, Navarrette is a newly minted horror icon. 

Navarrette's first major role was on the Netflix comedy Denton’s Death Date based on the YA novel Denton Little’s Death Date by Lance Rubin. From there Navarrette has been steadily working with prominent roles in the fourth season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and as a series regular on the CW’s Superman & Lois for four seasons.

However it was the release of Obsession this month that is really lighting Navarrette’s star on fire. Horror fans and critics are praising her work in the film, with some critics even bringing up potential Oscar buzz. With this standout performance we can’t wait to see what she does next. And luckily we won’t have to wait long as her next project is the thriller film Invertigo directed by Mattias Hoene and written by Kathy Charles, Billy O’Brien, and Don Roff. The story follows a group of teens who are stuck atop a broken rollercoaster high up in the air.

It's not every day an actress becomes an icon almost overnight and the sky's the limit for what's next.

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

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