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Spyglass Media Group is teaming with Propagate Content, Artists First and Off-Road Productions to form the new comedy film joint venture Artists Road, which will focus on the financing and production of moderate-budgeted commercial comedy movies with marquee talent. Artists Road has appointed Lakeshore Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: Brittany Myers Adams has joined Artists First as Brand Manager, and will be tasked with building a new branding division while exclusively representing clients in the branding/endorsement space. Adams, formerly of WME, will bring over clients including Lena Waithe, Dan Levy, Cynthia Erivo and Kevin…

UPDATED with latest: APA observed Blackout Tuesday by holding A Conversation for Action, part of its APA Elevate series, to focus on education and identify ways in which to fight for real and meaningful change. In addition to APA staff and clients, the Zoom webinar audience included showrunners, managers, studio and…

Artists First veterans and partners E. Brian Dobbins and David Gardner have been named Co-Presidents of the management/production company. Peter Principato, who had served as President and CEO since Principate-Young rebranded itself as Artists First in 2018, will remain CEO. "Brian and David have continually shown…

EXCLUSIVE: Corrine Aquino has joined Emmy-award winning management and production company Artists First. Aquino comes to Artists First after working as a manager at The Mission Entertainment and Rain Management Group. Aquino began her career in entertainment working in the Motion Picture Literary department at CAA…

UPDATED: Two and a half years after Ben Silverman left the company he had founded, the IAC-owned Electus, to join Howard T. Owens in A+E Networks-backed Propagate, the duo have acquired Electus and its majority stake in management/production company Artists First from Barry Diller’s IAC. Terms of the deal were not…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off of winning the Heath Ledger Scholarship, Charmaine Bingwa has signed with UTA and Artists First for representation. Bingwa, an Australian-born Zimbabwean performer, made history as the first openly gay woman of color to be honored with the scholarship, which was founded five months after Ledger's…

Management and production company Artists First has elevated Tucker Voorhees to partner. Voorhees, has been with the company, formerly Principato Young Entertainment, for over a decade. Voorhees’ clients include actors, writers and directors including Matt Walsh (Veep), Rhys Darby (Wrecked), Jon Daly (I'm Dying Up Here…

Management and production company Artists First (formerly Principato Young Entertainment) is expanding its staff of managers/producers with a new hire and a promotion. Cara Alpert has joined after four years at WME. Since coming over shortly before the company’s May rebrand, Alpert has been focusing on servicing…

Nine months after Principato-Young Entertainment co-founder Paul Young exited as Electus bought a majority stake in the management and production company, PYE is rebranding itself as Artists First. The other PYE founding partner, Peter Principato, will remain as president and CEO of Artists First, which  has 21…