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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Cory Jones (Boomerang, Insecure) has signed with APA for representation. Jones is best known for co-producing and writing on various seasons of Issa Rae’s hit HBO comedy series, Insecure. He has also written on shows like Games People Play for BET, Underground for OWN, and Ben Watkins…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) has signed with APA. Salazar rose to prominence with turns on the film side in The Divergent Series: Insurgent for Lionsgate, the Maze Runner franchise for 20th Century Fox and Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi actioner Alita: Battle Angel for 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime APA literary agent Adam Perry has been promoted to Partner. Perry began his career in the APA mailroom in 2011 and was promoted to agent in 2013. Since then, he has grown his roster of clients to represent such writers and directors as filmmakers Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou, Pach…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) has signed with APA for representation. Hildebrand is best known for starring alongside Ryan Reynolds in both 2016’s Deadpool and 2018’s Deadpool 2 for 20th and Marvel. In the beloved comic book films which collectively grossed over $1.5 billion…

EXCLUSIVE: APA continues to build its talent agent roster with the hire of Jovan Meredith, who moves to APA from Luber Roklin where he most recently served as a manager. He becomes the 16th new agent APA has brought in recently following the CAA/ICM merger. Meredith began his representation career at…

EXCLUSIVE: Thuan Dang has joined APA as an agent in the scripted literary department and Lucy Tashman has been promoted to Director of Content Development at the agency. Dang represents writers and directors in feature films, TV, streaming and animation. He becomes the 15th new agent/exec APA has…

EXCLUSIVE: APA is bolstering its Physical Production Department with the addition of three new agents – Marina Moyses, Alexa Lopez and Micaela Huber. Moyses will anchor South American initiatives from San Paulo Brazil;  Lopez comes to APA from Panavision and Huber has been elevated from coordinator to head up a hair…

EXCLUSIVE: Lana Parrilla has inked with APA and boarded Netflix’s Jennifer Lopez-starring AI drama Atlas directed by Brad Peyton. She joins Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown and Abraham Popoola in the film penned by Aron Eli Coleite and Leo Sardarian. In Atlas, an intelligence analyst gets stranded on a distant planet and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jen Rudin has joined APA where she will launch and head up the agency's Animation and Voice Over department. Rudin is the 12th former ICM agent/executive brought in by APA over the past year — more than all other agencies combined — as the agency has been aggressively pursing ICM staffers made available by…

EXCLUSIVE: Former ICM Partners agent Josh Lanham and Sam Sauerhaft, previously a manager with Independent Artists Media, have joined APA as agents in the Comedy Touring department. Lanham is the 11th agent/executive to join APA from ICM Partners in the fallout of the agency's acquisition by CAA as APA has been the…

EXCLUSIVE: Former ICM Partners agent Justin Ongert has joined APA as SVP, Alternative & Factual Programming. He will be the department's key liaison with the talent, comedy, and music departments, reporting to Kyle Loftus, Head of Content Development and Hayden Meyer head of Alternative and Factual Programming at…

EXCLUSIVE: Nashville and Heroes star Hayden Panettiere has signed with APA. The two-time Golden Globe nominee recently finished filming on Scream 6 in which she reprises her role as Kirby Reed. Panettiere’s breakout role came as Claire Bennet in NBC's Heroes and she went on to get the starring role of Juliette Barnes…