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EXCLUSIVE: Verve's Andy Stabile and his team, including Lanie Ragsdale, have wasted no time signing up new non-scripted clients after joining the agency. The company has signed Brian Balthazar and his Balthazar Entertainment banner, which produces HGTV hits Christina On The Coast and Christina In The…

On the eve of its anniversary, Verve has tapped founding Partner Bill Weinstein as the first CEO in the agency's thirteen years. The decision was made by the Partnership and announced by his fellow Founding Partners Adam Levine and Bryan Besser in an all-company meeting with a grateful and excited…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Julie Delpy has signed with Verve. As an actress, Delpy broke out in the 1990 Oscar nominated title Europa Europa which received a nod in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. The Paris-born multihyphenate made her debut as a filmmaker with the 1995 short film B…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Bannon has signed with Verve for representation. Best known for the title role of Alfred Pennyworth in the HBO Max series Pennyworth which had its season three premiere on the streamer last month. The fan-favorite series tells the origin story of Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth and…

EXCLUSIVE: Brenda Hsueh, a writer on Disney and Pixar's upcoming feature film Elemental, has inked with Verve after a competitive signing. She joins a stable of the agency's clients working in the animation space and Pixar brain trust. Hsueh began her career working on the first three seasons…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve continues to ramp up its unscripted business with the latest addition of Lanie Ragsdale as Non-Fiction Agent. Ragsdale’s move to Verve follows the hire of Andy Stabile as Partner and Head of Non-Fiction in July. Ragsdale will work with Stabile as he continues to build out the…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has made several key promotions this week across the motion picture and television literary teams with Partners Felicia Prinz and Chris Noriega being upped to Co-Heads overseeing the Television Literary Team, Parker Davis and Liz Parker will assume the Co-Head mantle of the Motion Picture Literary…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran non-fiction agent Andy Stabile is joining Verve as Partner and Head of Unscripted, bringing the number of partners at the agency to ten. Stabile spent the last six years at ICM Partners, which he left in the aftermath of the agency’s acquisition by CAA. Before that, he was at CAA for 14 years. His…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has upped coordinators Jessica Zou and Noah Liebmiller to Agents in the Motion Picture Literary Team. The agency, which has a tradition of surprising staffers with promotions, last week tasked Liebmiller and Zou with putting together a video as part of a signing exercise. I understand they were told…

Editor’s Note: Deadline closely covered the seismic impact that disruption, and the pandemic had on every segment of film, TV and stage, and the companies that make and distribute them. This will start a series of occasional features on how they’ve emerged from the darkness of the past two plus years.  Verve is…

EXCLUSIVE: Katy Mixon, who starred for five seasons on ABC’s American Housewife, has signed with Verve. Mixon played the title role, Katie Otto, in American Housewife. She most recently starred opposite Renée Zellweger in the NBC limited series The Thing About Pam, and she’ll next be seen as a lead in the upcoming…

EXCLUSIVE: This Is Us star Chris Geere, who is just coming off his run on NBC’s celebrated family drama series, has signed with Verve for representation. Geere joined This Is Us as a recurring in Season 5, and was promoted to series regular for the sixth and final season, which wrapped up last night. Geere’s character…