ICM Partners Promotes 6 Agents to Partner Status

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ICM Partners announced Monday that it has promoted six agents to partner status: Ayala Cohen (Comedy), Hrishi Desai (Lit), Adam Ginivisian (Comedy/Concerts), Scott Mantell (Concerts/International), Kathleen Remington (Lit) and Lara Sackett (Physical Production).

With this announcement, ICM now has 54 partners in total.

Cohen made the move from production to representation in 2012, parlaying her career as a talent executive/producer at “Saturday Night Live” into a thriving business as an agent. The New York-based agent reps such comedy stars as Pete Davidson, Fortune Feimster, Amy Landecker, Jay Pharoah, Chris Redd and Cecily Strong.

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Desai’s clients include “The Handmaid’s Tale” creator Bruce Miller, “Happy!” co-creator Grant Morrison and writers working on series such as “The Big Bang Theory,” “Empire,” “Power,” “Suits” and “13 Reasons Why.”

Ginivisian becomes the youngest partner at ICM. Beginning his career in the agency’s mailroom in 2007, Ginivisian quickly made the jump to agent in the Comedy Touring Department in 2009. His roster includes Jay Pharoah, Rob Schneider, Aisha Tyler, Desus & Mero, Anthony Atamanuik, Mikey Day, Southern Momma, Roseanne Barr and Chris Redd. He is also co-head of the Los Angeles Trainee Program.

Mantell started as an assistant in 2003 and quickly rose to become an Agent in the Concerts Department only a year later. As the Head of International Touring for the Concerts Department, which he built from the ground up, Mantell represents diverse high-profile clients ranging from Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, D’Angelo and Jon Bellion to Cyndi Lauper, Jill Scott, and Postmodern Jukebox.

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Remington started her career at ICM as an intern in 2003. Her clients include screenwriter/producer Gary Dauberman (“It,” “Annabelle: Creation”) and “Fast and Furious” writer-producer Chris Morgan.

Sackett represents numerous Oscar- and Emmy-winning production artists including editor William Goldenberg (“Argo”), production designer Jack Fisk (“The Revenant”), editor Hank Corwin (“The Big Short”), production designer Sarah Greenwood (“Beauty and the Beast”) and editor Tatiana Riegel (“I, Tonya”).

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Paul Reubens

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John Kennedy Jr.

You can hear the women in the live audience swooning when it's revealed that John John is Brown's latest secretary. "I guess the lawyer thing didn't work out," Brown jokes. He wasn't there to work, but to drop off a "wedding present" that was just a fake cover of the magazine he edited, "George."
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Kramer

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Sally Field

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Rosie O'Donnell

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Don Rickles

Rickles would've been in his 70s by the time he stepped into the secretary job during the show's final season.
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Bette Midler

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Hillary Clinton

At least the former First Lady has some experience as a "secretary," telling Murphy Brown in the revival's season premiere that she worked as one for four years in a "very large organization." Not only that, she boasted that she's "qualified, and I'm ready on day one." She even joked she has "some experience with emails."
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No matter how famous, no secretary lasted long on the CBS sitcom

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