Debra Messing Signs With Paradigm

EXCLUSIVE: Debra Messing has signed with Paradigm for representation. Messing is best known for her Emmy award-winning performance as Grace Adler in NBC’s hit comedy Will & Grace. The David Kohan and Max Mutchnick-created series, which ran for 11 seasons, focused on the friendship between Grace, a straight interior designer, and gay attorney Will, played by […]

Paradigm Undergoes Layoffs

EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm has laid off three agents: Jeff Kolodny, Adam Van Dusen, and Natalie Handelsman. We’re told no others were impacted. Both Kolodny and Handelsman are talent agents — Kolodny, the more senior of the two, as someone who spent the last 15 years at Paradigm. He joined in 2011 after three years as a […]

Paradigm Hires Agency Vet Michael Kirschner In Newly Launched Physical Production Division

EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm has hired veteran agent Michael Kirschner to their newly launched Physical Production division led Gil Harari and Jonathan Silverman. Kirschner counts close to two decades of experience representing top creative talent across film, television, commercials, and music videos. He rejoins Paradigm following four years as co-owner of Intrinsic. Kirschner specializes in repping…

Range Hires Paradigm Vet Jake Dexter as Vice President of Sports Content (EXCLUSIVE)

Jake Dexter has joined Range Sports in the role of vice president of sports content, Variety has learned. Dexter joins Range Sports — a division of Range Media Partners — from Paradigm, where he was a founding member of the Paradigm Sports Group. “Range Sports is a full-service talent representation firm and in parallel with […]

‘Landman’s Guy Burnet Signs With Paradigm

EXCLUSIVE: Guy Burnet, the British actor who has recently broken out with the role of Charlie Newsom in Taylor Sheridan’s hit series Landman, has signed with Paradigm for U.S. representation. Landman is Paramount+’s drama following fixer Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) as he navigates the dangerously unpredictable, albeit booming business of West Texas’s oil industry. Introduced in Season […]

Paradigm Set to Launch Physical Production Division Led by Gil Harari and Jonathan Silverman

Paradigm will launch a physical production department led by veteran agents Gil Harari and Jonathan Silverman. Harari and Silverman previously held key roles at Paradigm, where each helped build and shape the agency’s physical production business during earlier chapters of their careers. The moves reunites them with the company but also signals a strategic effort […]

Anderson Silva Signs with Paradigm

EXCLUSIVE: MMA fighter and documentary subject Anderson Silva has signed with Paradigm for representation. Silva holds a 17-fight winning streak and 10 consecutive UFC title defenses. Beyond his fighting career, Silva has built a career across business and entertainment. On the film side, he recently appeared in Tubi’s Murder City, directed by Michael D. Olmos. […]

Paradigm Hires Motion Picture Lit Agents Sara Nestor & Viviane Telio

EXCLUSIVE: Motion Picture Literary Agents Sara Nestor and Viviane Telio have joined Paradigm, Deadline has learned. Both come over from Verve — Nestor, after 11 years, and Telio, after five and a half. Nestor will work out of Paradigm’s Los Angeles office, with Telio based in the New York office. Homegrown at Verve, Nestor began her […]

Paradigm Signs Screenwriters Eyal Podell & Jonathon E. Stewart

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriting duo Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart have signed with Paradigm for representation. Alumni of Dartmouth College, Podell and Stewart first garnered industry attention with their feature screenplay Seuss, a biopic of iconic children’s author Dr. Seuss, which placed No. 2 on the 2012 Black List. The script launched the duo into a […]

‘Everything Sucks!’ Creator Ben York Jones Signs With Paradigm

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter and television creator Ben York Jones has signed with Paradigm for representation. Jones co-created, co-showran, executive produced, and co-starred in Netflix’s 90s-set Everything Sucks! in 2018. The coming-of-age series followed two groups of high school misfits, an A/V club and a drama club, who collide in 1996 Oregon. It starred Peyton Kennedy and Jahi Winston […]

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