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Cassandra Freeman has signed with Don Buchwald & Associates for theatrical representation and One Entertainment for management. The actress, who starred as Wanda Durant in the Lifetime movie The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story, recently guest starred on FX’s Donald Glover comedy Atlanta and recurred on the…

Don Buchwald & Associates is bolstering its growing team, adding three new agents in its L.A. office, and a fourth in New York, and promoting two. In Los Angeles, Donyea Rochlin joins as an agent in DBA’s Literary department representing writers and directors in both television and film. Rochlin's diverse background…

Neil Brown Jr., who played DJ Yella in Straight Outta Compton, has signed with Don Buchwald & Associates for representation in all areas. Brown was cast this week in BBC America series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. He next will be seen in Iraq War drama Sand Castle opposite Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Shaffer has signed with Don Buchwald & Associates in all areas, with plans to branch out into creating his own television opportunities. David Letterman’s longtime musical director, bandleader and comic foil, Shaffer recently appeared in Bill Murray’s Netflix special A Very Murray Christmas directed by…

William Morris veteran Conan Smith has joined Don Buchwald & Associates to run its Comedy and TV Packaging Division out of the New York office. He will funnel emerging and well-known comedic talent and enhance opportunities in the agency’s other departments. Smith will develop a team of agents on both coasts who will…

Maximilian Ulanoff and Kaitlyn Flynn have joined Don Buchwald & Associates' New York office, and Ben Gorman and Nick Leicht will be based in L.A. Ulanoff joins DBA/NY after spending the past eight years working in branded entertainment and licensing, most recently for the Joester Loria Group where he worked with…

Veteran agent Cynthia Booth and manager-turned-agent Emma Lewis have joined Don Buchwald and Associates in Los Angeles. Both come from now-shuttered Resolution. Booth, most recently head of the TV/talent division at Resolution, began her career at CAA and subsequently worked at Writers and Artists. Lewis began at ICM…

Don Buchwald & Associates has restructured its young performers division with several key hirings and naming of leadership roles in both NY and LA. The expanded team will be led in NY by Leslie Zaslower, formerly Director of Casting at Nickelodeon. Pamela Roth Goldman has been tapped to head the youth commercials…

Veteran talent agent Michael Greenwald, who had been at Don Buchwald & Associates for 18 years, departed the agency at the beginning of this week. “After many years as an agent at DBA, Michael Greenwald has now become a manager,” West Coast president Julia Buchwald said. “We wish him nothing but the best.” Greenwald…

EXCLUSIVE: Exactly two years after Don Buchwald & Assoc. partnered with Michael McConnell and Ben Press’ Fortitude, the two talent agencies are going their separate ways. “Our ability to move forward together was hampered by a difference in business cultures,” Don Buchwald wrote in a memo to the agency’s clients sent…

And round and round they go. Just days after Paradigm poached the key members of Abrams Artists’ Youth Department, Abrams has hired the agents of the Youth Department at Buchwald/Fortitude. We hear the entire department — head Pamela Fisher, senior agent Chrissy Eaden and junior agent Famata Kamara — left…

Tim Angle, the former president of Don Buchwald & Associates who exited the talent agency in the fallout of the merger with Fortitude in early May, is switching to management. Angle, who spent 19 years at Buchwald, has joined Shelter Entertainment Group. "I am pleased to be able to begin my career as a manager with…