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CAA Promotes 16 to Agency and Executive Ranks
“We are proud to promote these wonderfully talented individuals who have worked tirelessly to get to where they are today,” CAA board member Michelle Kydd Lee saysUmberto Gonzalez | March 8, 2021 @ 1:05 PM Last Updated: March 8, 2021 @ 1:16 PM
Creative Artists Agency has promoted 16 staffers to the agent and executive ranks at its annual company retreat, which kicked off Monday in a virtual setting, the agency announced.
Norris Brooks, Simone Capers, Joella Dorenbaum, Mathilde Dumont, JB Fogel, Harry Fotopoulos, Faith France, Alex Gold, Chris Ibbs, Evan Kantor, Yesenia Martinez, Jasmin Nash, Maya Nelson, Corey Vann, Yale Wolman and Arya Zanganeh have been promoted to agent or executive.
Podcast Network Lemonada Media Signs With CAA
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Lemonada Media, a podcast network startup founded by Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs, has signed with CAA.
The company says its podcasts “share an unfiltered version of the human experience” that provide a way for people to come together. Lemonada previously was repped by UTA.
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above left) is Lemonada’s CEO and Wittels Wachs is chief creative officer. Founded in 2019, the Minneapolis-based company last year raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by Blue Collective, an early-stage venture capital firm.
Lemonada’s first show, “Last Day,” premiered in September 2019 and focused on the U.S. opioid epidemic through the lens of the co-founder’s losses of their own brothers. By February 2020, it was a top-trending podcast and has had more than 4 million downloads to date. The company premiered season 2 of “Last Day” la