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Talent and literary agencies — agencies that represent creative artists, writers, performers, and other entertainers. Full-service talent and literary agencies represent clients for all arts and entertainment mediums, and related business interests. A literary agency represents authors, screenwriters, and playwrights.
A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers, and film studios, and assists in sale and deal negotiation. Literary agents most often represent novelists , screenwriters , and non-fiction writers.
Talent agencies specialize, either by creating departments within the agency or developing entire agencies that primarily or wholly represent one specialty. For example, there are modeling agencies, commercial talent agencies, literary agencies, voice-over agencies, broadcast journalist agencies, sports agencies, music agencies and many more.
United Talent Agency was established in 1991 through the merger of the Bauer-Benedek Agency and Leading Artists Agency. [13] Jim Berkus, Jeremy Zimmer, [14] [15] and Peter Benedek are UTA's co-founders. [16] [17] UTA had 10 partners and 40 agents by mid-1994. [18]
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild . [ 2 ]
In 2004, Paradigm acquired the literary firm Genesis and the Writers & Artists Agency. [7] The acquisition added a dozen agents and also brought a potent TV client list including 24 creator/executive producer Joel Surnow and Two and a Half Men co-creator/exec producer Lee Aronsohn to Paradigm.
Albert Curtis Brown was an American journalist who was the London correspondent for The New York Press.He also ran a press syndication agency. Because of his extensive contacts in both the UK and America, he fell into representing authors who were looking for publishing opportunities on the two continents.
The Association of Talent Agents (ATA) is a non-profit trade association representing talent agencies in the United States entertainment industry. ATA agencies represent the vast majority of artists working in the field, including actors, directors, writers, and other artists in film, stage, television, radio, commercial, literary work, and other entertainment enterprises.