MAMAMOO is coming!
24.02.2023 - 21:11 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has today announced its promotion of Caroline Soss to Manager, and its hire of Curtis Shaw Flagg in the same role.
Clients of recently appointed Talent Manager Soss, who specializes in developing global artists, include Lyrica Okano (Marvel’s Runaways), Dan Leahy (Reboot), Katie Parker (The Haunting of Hill House), Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.) and Nicholas Ralph (All Creatures Great and Small).
The Philadelphia native started at Artists First as an intern in 2015 and, after graduating from Syracuse University;s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, joined Artists First full-time assisting Kimberlin Belloni and Maggie Haskins (who was promoted to Partner last year). Soss then moved on to work for Co-President David Gardner, also serving as the company’s Drama Talent Coordinator prior to her latest promotion.
Illinois native Flagg studied Bioinformatics at Marian University before moving to Chicago and pivoting his career to live entertainment in 2010. He subsequently split his time between for-profit at Laugh Factory Chicago and non-profit as the Director of Marketing and External Community Partnerships at Open Books, before being promoted in 2013 to Manager at Laugh Factory Chicago, where he presided over operations and booking for a decade. Flagg joins Artists First to rep comedic talent, touring, and personal appearance and will be based out of the company’s Chicago office.
“Artists First exists to cultivate prosperity for its clients and colleagues,” said Co-Presidents E. Brian Dobbins and Gardner, “and the addition of these extraordinary young managers provides us with the strength to continue to see that vision through.”
Artists First has also today announced
MAMAMOO is coming!
MAMAMOO are set to embark on their first-ever tour of the US as part of their wider ‘MY CON’ world tour.Today (March 15), the quartet officially announced that they would be going on their first North American tour, which will comprise shows in nine cities on both coasts, as well as southern and midwestern markets, over two months.MAMAMOO’s US tour will first kick off on May 16 in New York, before heading down the coast to Baltimore, Maryland and Atlanta, Georgia. The girl group will then head down south, with shows in Tennessee, Texas and Arizona.
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This is just so sweet!
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