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CAA has promoted eight trainees from its training program, CAA Elevate, to Agent. Those moving up at the agency are Pili Allen, Tara Anderson, Nicole Brookman, Ben Gelfand, Erica Drache Martelli, Jonathan Rodrigues, Lucas Ryan and Michael Taber.
Allen and Anderson will serve as Agents in the Scripted Television department, with Brookman, Martelli and Taber working in Motion Picture Talent, Ryan in Television Talent, Rodrigues in Strategic Development, and Gelfand in Games. All eight promotees will be based in Los Angeles.
Allen represents such notable writer-directors as Kestrin Pantera, whose feature Pretty Problems recently won the SXSW Audience Award, and Jeff Greenstein, who served as showrunner for Will & Grace. He joined CAA as a Coordinator in 2022 following the agency’s acquisition of ICM Partners, where he was a Television and Motion Picture Literary Coordinator. CAA’s new Scripted Television Agent previously worked in private wealth management at Morgan Stanley, in the mailroom at WME, and in development at feature production company Bold Films, having graduated with a degree in Finance from Cal State LA.
Allen’s fellow Scripted TV Agent Anderson reps non-writing EPs and premium line producers who oversee all aspects of physical production. Her clients work closely with directors, showrunners and studio executives to ensure the alignment of creative and production, from development through principal photography. The promotee earned both a BFA In Drama and a master’s degree in Inter-Disciplinary Performance Studies from NYU and began her career on set in New York City, assisting directors in film and television production, including Jonathan Demme, James Gray and Mimi Leder. She joined CAA in 2019, after
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