CAA Promotes 22 Including Music And Comedy Staff

CAA has announced the advancement of 22 trainees, including the promotion of Bradlee Banbury, Logan Handelsman, Shirin Nury, Will Scott, and Juliet Teicher to agent in the Music department. Meanwhile, Christian Amechi, Andy Farag, and Mark Gordon have been promoted to agents in the Comedy department.

The full press release follows:

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Chen Jing and Avi Wasserman have been promoted to Agents in the Motion Pictures department.  Jing, based in the agency’s Beijing office, and Wasserman, in Los Angeles, serve in the Talent group, which represents the world’s most accomplished and emerging actors and actresses working in film.  

Wilhelmina Ross, Ishmael Hinson, and Matthew Chazen have been promoted to Agents in CAA’s industry-leading Television department.  Chazen, based in New York, is in the Alternative – Television group, while Ross and Hinson, based in Los Angeles, serve in the TV Lit and Media Talent groups, respectively.

Based in Los Angeles, Christian Amechi, Andy Farag, and Mark Gordon have been promoted to Agents in the Comedy Touring group, which books more than 5,000 live performances around the globe annually.  

Bradlee Banbury, Logan Handelsman, Shirin Nury, Will Scott, and Juliet Teicher have been promoted to Agents in CAA’s Music department, which in 2016 represented one-third of the top 100 worldwide tours.  Banbury is based in London, Handelsman is based in Nashville, Nury is based in Los Angeles, and Scott and Teicher are based in New York. 

Miami-based Arlesha Amazan has been promoted to Agent in CAA Sports’ Basketball division, which represents more than three dozen All-Star and emerging NBA players.  Nick Thimm has been elevated to Executive in the agency’s award-winning Property Sales group, and is based in New York. 

Los Angeles-based Chelsea Gosnell, Chloe McHugh, Lingie Park, and Peter Skrumbis, and New York-based Erin Heyns-Stern, have been promoted to Executives in CAA Marketing, the most awarded marketing services organization of the past four years.  

Katherine Moncrief and Adam Friedman have been promoted to Executives in Corporate Development and Global Client Strategy, respectively.