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EXCLUSIVE: Verve has promoted agent Felicia Prinz to partner, bringing the total number of partners at the Los Angeles agency to seven. Prinz is credited with developing Verve’s television team, which during her tenure over the past seven-plus years, has grown from four agents to 14. Prinz works with Stephany Folsom (P…

Verve, which earlier this week became the first talent agency to respond to the #PayUpHollywood movement by pledging to boost pay of assistants and mailroom employees, has signed writer/activist Liz Alper, who is behind the initiative. Alper, is a member of the WGA West board of directors and of the guild’s 2020 MBA…

Verve is giving its assistants and mailroom employees a 25%-40% pay raise in response to #PayUpHollywood – the first known pay hikes tied directly to the movement since it was launched in October. Verve's move comes after it conducted an internal survey last month, which also prompted the talent agency to shorten…

EXCLUSIVE: Devon Schiff is returning to the agency world, joining Verve as a television agent. She will start at the Los Angeles-based firm in January. Verve is one of handful of lit agencies allowed to represent writers after signing a franchise agreement with the WGA in May. Schiff comes to Verve from Monsterfoot…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated director Neil Marshall has signed with Verve. Marshall has directed the pilots/pilot episodes for Black Sails (Starz), Constantine (NBC), Timeless (NBC) and Lost in Space (Netflix). He directed two Game of Thrones episodes, “Blackwater” and “The Watchers of the Wall.” Marshall received a Hugo…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Powerless and A to Z creator producer Ben Queen for representation. Queen’s hourlong Heart of Life, inspired by the John Mayer song, was picked up to pilot by ABC during the 2018-19 season and currently is being redeveloped at the network. Written by Queen, Heart of Life follows two sets of…

EXCLUSIVE: Director, writer and actor Lily Mariye has signed with with Verve Talent and Literary Agency for representation for directing. Mariye has acted in TV series including ER, Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, Shameless and others. In addition to acting, she has and continues to showcase her talent as a director. This…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Watson, creator of Freeform’s fashion mag dramedy series The Bold Type, has inked with Verve. The series, which is based on the life of Hearst chief content officer and former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, was renewed for a fourth season back in May, with Wendy Straker Hauser as…

In May, Verve became the biggest agency to sign the WGA's new Code of Conduct, which bans TV packaging and agency-affiliated production, allowing it to resume representing its writer clients and land high-profile new ones including WGA Agency Negotiating Committee members John August and Meredith Stiehm. While…

Another member of the WGA-Agency Agreement Negotiating Committee has signed with Verve after having previously been represented by a Big 4 agency. Veteran showrunner Meredith Stiehm, WGA West board member and agency negotiating committee co-chair, has signed with Verve, the only notable lit agency that has agreed to…

Verve on Friday scored its first big client signing since agreeing to the WGA’s new Code of Conduct in Big Fish and Aladdin scribe and WGA activist John August. There hasn’t been an influx of new writer clients to Verve in the month since it became the first lit agency to sign the Code Of Conduct, maybe because…

Big Fish scribe and WGA activist John August has just signed with Verve. August had been with UTA most of his career. He has just tweeted out that despite expressing the sentiment he would give his agent his kidney and still would, he still made the move. August’s most recent credit is the Disney event film Aladdin; …