IN PERSON NYC Legit Agent Night Panel
Monday, March 13, 2023, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT
This event is in the past.
Looking for a strategic New York agent to help you up-level your career? Join us for this IN PERSON panel at Pearl Studios.
Learn more about 4 different agencies that are helping clients book tv, film and theatre work in the New York market and get their feedback on your performance and marketing materials.
In addition to feedback in the room, you'll also receive written feedback that will be given to you after the event to provide even more clarity on your work.
This panel includes:
- Brett Rigby, Carlton, Goddard and Freer
- Shirley Faison, Adunni Rose Talent Agency - New NY Office!
-Katherine Connors, Made Worldwide Agency
-David Elliot, Buchwald
*Please note that Guests are subject to change.
This event takes place at PEARL STUDIOS.
500 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
Brett Rigby
Brett is an Partner with CGF Talent in New York City. This very busy office currently has clients in many platforms of the business including:
TELEVISION: ELSBETH, THE NIGHT AGENT, GREY’S ANATOMY, FBI-MOST WANTED, LAW & ORDER, ABBOT ELEMENTARY, THE DAILY SHOW, SVU, CHICAGO PD; FILM: YOUR MOTHER, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR MOTHER, STERLING POINT, THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF WILSON SHED; BROADWAY: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, THE GREAT GATSBY, BOOP!, JUST IN TIME, REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, OLD FRIENDS, &JULIET, MOULIN ROUGE, HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, HAMILTON, WICKED, THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE LION KING, CHICAGO, and more
He is also a private coach and adviser with Broadway Artists Alliance.
David Elliott
A highly respected commercial agent, David has been at Don Buchwald for over 30 years. He's recently booked his clients in commercials for IBM, Campbell's Soup, Target, Shop-Rite, Citizen's Bank, Slimfast and Rockstar Video Games.
Shirley Faison
A former actress, director, producer, and artistic director for a theatre company, Faison is a discerning talent scout with proven savvy discovering and nurturing new talent and launching and guiding their early careers. Her broad-based experience in entertainment informs the talent development, career consultation, and personal attention that is her hallmark and supports a talent roster that books.
Known as an agent who listens to what producers and casting directors are looking for and a talent developer who keenly interprets the needs. Faison has earned the respect of leading casting professionals in theatre, film, and television.
Equally respected by her clients, Faison is proud of her track record building a career ladder for the actor from their first job. She specializes in talent of all ages and engages them as partners in the enterprise. “I look at their strongest asset and market that,” she stresses. “I ask them how they want their career to develop and make a plan to get them jobs. I narrow the playing field by getting them in where they ‘fit.’ So even where there may be a lot of great actors who have more credits, I look for the strategy most likely to secure the job for my client. Then, I work with them to eliminate the blocks that can stall their progress from one stage to the next.”
Actors represented by Shirley Faison have booked lead and supporting roles in feature films and parts in television pilots, episodic, and series. Her clients have also booked countless lead and supporting roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, and regional theater companies across the U.S.
Faison is proud to have developed and launched the careers of successful actors, including Eden Duncan-Smith, Constance Wu, Donald Faison, Ryan Toby, Horace V. Rogers, Reza Salazar, Laz Alonso, Annabelle Attanasio, Dorian Missick, and Jeannette Bayardelle.
Shirley Faison is a Rutgers University Douglass College graduate and is the author of 7 Rules To Thrive As A Performer: A Workbook Experience. She is a proud mother of three sons and a grandmother of eleven.
Katherine Connors
Katherine Connors, CEO and founder of Made Worldwide Agency started the company back in 2012. What then was set out to be a local modeling agency grew into bi-coastal talent agency 8 years later.
Katherine originally studied at the American Musical Dramatic Academy and pursued a career of singing and dancing of her own for 10 years before she partnered with her entertainment lawyer to start up MWA and help book more opportunities for all the other models and actors she knew. Since then she has brought on agents, managers and assistants to grow the company to where it is today as she went back to the Babson School of Business to take her company to the next level. Thanks to the scholarship that the Tory Burch Foundation and the 10,000 Small Business Program provided her for being a successful female business entrepreneur. MWA quickly became a Women Owned Business Enterprise in the City and State of New York; one of the first of its kind excepted from the entertainment industry.
She is honored to represent her roster and will continue to be hands on and team talent no matter where the road takes this up and coming agency.
Meets
| Monday, March 13, 2023 | 6:30 pm |
The following disclaimer is provided specifically at the request of and in accordance with SAG/AFTRA: Seminars or classes are for educational purposes only and will not secure or provide opportunity for employment in the field or representation by an agent or casting director.
