CAA Promotes 10 to Agent, Executive Positions

Talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has promoted 10 trainees to agent or executive, the company announced today.

Austin Denesuk has been promoted to Agent in CAA’s Television department. Denesuk is based in Los Angeles, where she serves in the TV Lit group.

Bennett Beckner, Joseph Harris, Madison Lee, and Joe Mott were elevated to Agents in CAA’s Music department, which represents more than one-third of this year’s top 100 worldwide tours. Beckner and Lee are based in Nashville, while Harris and Mott are based in Los Angeles.

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Callie Rivers and Maddy Roth have been named Executives in the CAA Foundation, the agency’s philanthropic arm, and are based in the Los Angeles office.

Jacksonville-based Beth Enstrom has been promoted to Executive in CAA Golf, and Tee Stumb has been promoted to Agent in CAA Sports Talent Sales department. He will continue to be based in New York.

Erik Telford has been promoted to Agent in the Speakers group, and is based in the CAA’s Los Angeles office.

Last month, CAA unveiled a pair of operational groups, Finance and People & Culture, comprised of 35 women and men, including many existing department heads and next-generation leaders, who are reporting directly to the Management Committee.

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Andy Cohen, horror tycoon Jason Blum and Seth Meyers
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Viola Davis and Ryan Murphy

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Present and future political power on display: Antonio Villaraigosa and Senator Barbara Boxer claim some choice real estate.
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Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade
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Sarah Paulson, Andy Garcia and Daniella Garcia-Lorido
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Colin Jost and most definitely not Scarlett Johansson. That's SNL producer Erin Doyle.

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For Tom Ford (with Stanley Tucci), fashion week is every week.
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Matthew DelPiano, Kevin Huvane, Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin
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The happy couple: Emmy Rossum and her husband Sam Esmail, who created "Mr. Robot"
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Robin Tunney and Shiri Appleby
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Dame Helen Mirren and Geoffrey Rush. (Mirren is one of only three actresses to win a Golden Globe, an Oscar and an Emmy in the same year.)
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On the way to milestone wins for "The Handmaid's Tale," Alexis Bledel hung out with one of the party hosts, Adam Berkowitz.
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Here comes the "Big Little Lies" gang -- Laura Dern, David E. Kelley and Reese Witherspoon -- and Ava DuVernay.
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Don't forget to eat. It's a misdemeanor to skip the eats at Bouchon. "Atlanta" star Brian Tyree Henry powered up. Later on Friday, his table at the EW party had all the social gravity, with Sterling K.Brown coming by to hang poolside.
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Max Winkler and Zoey Deutch know the rules
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Reese Witherspoon greets the chef, Thomas Keller
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CAA's Richard Lovett, Dern, Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth
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Adam Sanderson and Discovery/Animal Planet/Science Channel chief Rich Ross
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Cohen, Bob Greenblatt and Bryan Lourd
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A lot of cable business could flow between this group: Bryan Lourd, Bonnie Hammer and Adam Berkowitz.
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Garcia, Huvane and Jerry Bruckheimer, who could win another Emmy for "The Amazing Race" on Sunday night.
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Always a bon vivant, Common made the scene.
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Dern and Kevin Bacon
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Geoffrey Rush is nominated for Lead Actor in a limited series for "Genius" and, by all photographic accounts, looks like he had a blast at the soiree.
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When the "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Family Guy" and "Ted" universes collide, you get J.J. Abrams and Seth MacFarlane. Pray for a collaboration.

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As the captains of entertainment, sports, politics and fashion converge in Beverly Hills before the Emmy Awards, CAA is the straw that stirs the drink

As the captains of entertainment, sports, politics and fashion converge at Bouchon in Beverly Hills before the Emmy Awards, CAA is the straw that stirs the drink. With "Big Little Lies" scoring big in nominations, leads Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern favored heavily into the social equation.

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