WME: Actor Bobby Cannavale has shifted from ICM Partners to WME. He currently stars in the HBO freshman drama Vinyl which was renewed for a second season. He previously acted in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire where he worked with Vinyl co-creators Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese. His 2015 film credits include Daddy’s Home, Ant-Man, Spy and Danny Collins.
Abrams: Youtuber Jack Baran has signed with Abrams Artists Agency. His channel, ThatsSoJack, known for life hacks and comments on pop culture, has over 4.1 million followers. In 2015, Baran starred in an AwesomenessTV skit alongside Paulina Cerrilla and then teamed with fellow YouTube personality Jenn McAllister for an AwesomenessTV series titled First Times with Jack + Jenn. He was nominated in 2014 for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Collaboration.
WME: Filmmaker Miles Joris-Peyrafitte has signed with the agency. The 23 year-old directed, co-wrote, acted in and co-scored As You Are, which was in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award. Joris-Peytafitte is currently writing his next film, which he’ll direct. He will team up with Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Votiv’s Brent Stiefel, who both produced As You Are.
Abrams: Instagram celebrity “Doctor Mike” Varshavski has signed with Abrams Artists Agency. He currently has over 1.5 million followers through Instagram and is known for being a real-life “McDreamy”. People Magazine previously voted Varshavski as their “Sexiest Doctor Alive”. The doctor is currently a resident at a hospital in New York City. The Russian immigrant was inspired to become a doctor after his father attended medical school at the age of 41.
ICM: Writer-director Andrew Ahn has signed with ICM Partners. His debut feature film Spa Night premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it’s star Joe Seo picked up the Special Jury Award. His film received a Sundance Institute Cinereach Feature Film Fellow grant, a Panavision New Filmmaker grant, and a FilmLA grant. Ahn participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab, and the Film Independent Directing Lab.
Abrams: New York-based designer and artist Jimmy DiResta has signed with Abrams Artists Agency. He began his career on television and hosted shows including Discovery’s Dirty Money, FX’s Trash to Cash and DIY’s Hammered. He has since shifted to YouTube and released videos on his channel jimmydiresta. There he has accumulated over 51 million videos views from his 489K subscribers in only six months.
Relevant: Actor Alden Ehrenreich has signed with Relevant for publicity. He is best known for his portrayal as the cowboy actor in Hail, Caesar! He recently wrapped on the Iraq War drama The Yellow Birds, alongside Jennifer Aniston, and will next shoot an untitled drama written and directed by Warren Beatty. He continues to be repped by CAA and Brillstein.