Creative Artists Agency (CAA) announced Monday that it has promoted 20 trainees to agent or executive. The move comes after a series of defections earlier this month that saw a number of agents — and their high-profile clients — depart for United Talent Agency (UTA).
Details of each promotion are below:
–Kevin Lin has been promoted to agent in CAA’s theatre department.
–Olivia Blaustein, Hannah Kuzniecky, and Matt Olson have been promoted to agent in CAA’s television department.
–Tommy Bruce, Ben Coles, Caitlin Davidson, Kasey McKee, Spencer Sherman, and Emily Wright have been promoted to agent in CAA’s music department.
–Josh Rahm and Rhys Broussard have been promoted to agent in CAA’s motion pictures department.
–Sylvia Friedel, Farrell Ulrich, and Chris Yenn have been promoted to executive in CAA marketing.
–Giselle Leon has been promoted to executive in CAA’s lifestyle department.
–Adam Paulsen has been promoted to agent in CAA’s film finance department.
–Matt Elefant, Heather Grosz, and Roman Di Somma have been promoted to agent in CAA sports.
Blaustein, Broussard, Bruce, Elefant, Friedel, McKee, Olson, Paulsen, Rahm and Yenn are based in Los Angeles. Davidson, Kuzniecky, Leon, Lin and Ulrich are based in New York. Sherman, Grosz and Wright are based in Nashville; Coles and Di Somma are based in London.