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  • A big thanks to all the families that participated in our March event. For all of the families that were unable to attend our March event we have scheduled an Encore event in May. More details to come.
  • Kendall Park "Jack Lippman Agency", Brad Diffley " Mavrick Artist", Jeremy Apody "Abrams Artist", Renata Dobrucki "Coast to Coast", Bill Naoum "Commercial Talent", Debbie Palmer "Diverse Talent Group", William Bartoli "Bobby Ball Agency", Meridith Montgomery "Osbrink Agency",

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Hollywood to the Desert | May 16-17 | Renaissance Esmeralda Hotel

the agents

  Mavrick Artists Agency
Brad Diffley

Brad Diffley, CEO of Los Angeles based Mavrick Artists Agency, specializes in the representation of young artists for Commercials, Voice-Over, Television and Feature Films. Over Brad’s tenure as an agent, he has booked thousands of commercials for all major advertising agencies Leo Burnett, DDB, Ogilvy & Mather, Grey Worldwide, Team One, TBWA Chiat Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, J. Walter Thompson just to name a few. Mavrick clients can be seen in commercials for Huggies, Children’s Medical Center, Fisher Price, Volkswagen, AAA, Kellogg’s, Baby Einstein, Sears, Little Tykes, Walgreens, Dell, VH-1’s Scott Baio Promo, Gogurt, Tracfone, AT&T, Goodnights, Jack’s Restaurants, Miller, Budweiser, Citibank, Bally’s, Clean & Clear as well as numerous other. Mavrick’s clients can be seen in television shows which include Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader, Grey’s Anatomy, Shark, Numbers, DreamWorks’ Madagascar 2, E.R., Brother’s And Sisters, Women’s Murder Club, Lincoln Heights, Medium, Criminal Minds, The Closer, Days Of Our Lives, Wizards of Waverly Place, The Mentalist, The 11th Hour, Dexter, Heroes, Life as well as numerous others. Mavrick feature film credits include Madagascar 2 starring Chris Rock, Labor Pains starring Lindsey Lohan and most recently Magic Man starring Billy Zane. Brad has represented talent from television shows including 2 ½ Men, That’s So Raven, Zoey 101, Reba, According to Jim, Rodney, Zoey 101 as well as numerous other. Brad has production experience having worked on the entertainment news show Entertainment Tonight and has delved in the print world working in the youth department at Ford Models/LA. Brad has been awarded the Talent Managers Association’s Seymour Heller Award Commercial Agent of the Year 2005, 2006 and 2007. www.mavrickartists.com

  JLA Talent Agency
Kendall Park

Kendall Park an alumni of Beverly Hills HS, graduated college with degrees in both Marketing & Economics. After college he partnered up to open Continental Insurance Brokerage. Five years later he merged his company with Trading Financial Capital there handling both Insurance and Corporate Financing. This career continued for another six years. Kendall Park's mother is the World Renowned Jazz Artist Maxine Weldon. Having his whole family involved in the Entertaiment business, Kendall finally transfered from the world of Financing to now find himself in the fast paced world of Enteratinment. Originally coming from ACME Talent & Literary, he both trained and eventually ran their commercial department for five years. He led that division to become the third most successful commercial department in the industry. In December of 2002, Kendall left to partner up with four other successful Los Angeles "power agents", to form JLA. The agency is formed up by Kendall Park, handling both theatrical & commercial, (adult t/c), Kendall brings with, amongst his extensive client list, such actors as: Ashley Tisdale The Suite Life & High School Musical, Kyla Pratt - One On One & The Proud Family, Fat Albert The Movie, Robert Ri'chard - One On One & Coach Carter, Cousin Skeeter, Kristin Herrera – Zoey 101, Courtney Draper - The Jersey & Bold & Beautiful, Ashley Clark - The Hugley's, Orlando Brown – That’s So Raven & The Proud Family, Lalaine - Lizzy Maguire, Daniella Zuvic - Nancy Drew, American Dreams & Listen Up, , Morgan Flynn Strong Medicine, Parker Posey - My Wife & Kids, Percy Daggs Veronica Mars, Kyndle Rose CSI Miami Bobby Edner & Robert Dvito- Spy Kid's 3, Taylor Lautner & Sascha Piertese Shark Boy & Lava Girl,Lauren Storm-Flight 29 Down, Michael Johnson- Mike’s Super Short Show,Timmy Deters & Jeffrey Tedmori-Bad News Bears, Eddie Hassel-Surface,Denzel Whitaker-The Great Debators, All That, CJ Saunders- Ray Charles Movie, Kyle Massey-Corey In The House, Jennifer Hyatt-Ned’s Declassfied.

  Abrams Artist Agency
Jeremy Apody

Jeremy Apody is the Head of the Youth Commercial Division at Abrams Artists Agency. He was the recipient of the 2008 Seymour Heller Award for Youth Commercial Agent of The Year. Jeremy is actively involved in scouting and finding up and coming talent and developing young rising stars. Currently, Jeremy represents such young stars as Angus Jones from Two and A Half Men, Forrest Landis from Cheaper by the Dozen, Kara Taitz from Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Daniel Curtis Lee from Ned’s Declassified. He has placed children in national campaigns including Sears, Goodyear, AT&T, Target and Verizon to name a few. His client Erin Sanders from Zoey 101 was just recently the national campaign spokesperson for VTECH, the educational video game and his client Jaylen Scott can currently be seen in a National Commercial for Lowes.

  Commercial Talent Agency
Bill Naoum

Commercial Talent Kids is a full service agency based in LA, whose clients have appeared in such films as Disney’s Air Buddies, Eddie Murphy’s Norbit, Micheal Bays Transformers and the soon to be released Katherine Heigl film Ugly Truth.  TV appearances include The Shield, Zoey 101, Everybody Hates Chris, Passions, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia with Danny DeVito, The Eleventh Hour, a new Jerry Bruckheimer series and a possible recurring role on NBC’s 30 Rock.  Voiceovers include series regulars on Disney’s Happy Monster Band and Paper Capers from the Emmy nominated producer of Jakers on PBS.  Their clients have appeared in dozens of commercials for such companies as Home Depot, Western Union, Ross, K Mart, McDonalds, T Mobile, Ford, Universal Studios and Nikon with Ashton Kutcher.  Their client Lexi Jourdan is also the new Life Cereal girl.  Print jobs include Verizon, Lee Jeans, Abercrombie & Fitch and Vanity Fair.

 

Coast to Coast Agency
Renata Dobrucki

Renata is an agent with the Commercial Youth Division at Coast to Coast Talent. She enjoys scouting for future clients, & is always on the look-out for that next Bright star.Coast represents some of the most recognizable youth in television, films & in commercials: Desperate Housewives, According to Jim, General Hospital, Young & the Restless, Little Miss Sunshine, The Cleaner,  Hannah Montana, Ned’s Declassified, I-Carly, Cinderella Man, How to Eat Fried Worms, Martian Child, Fame, Private Practice, Without a Trace, McDonalds, Albertsons, Bayer, Target, Verizon, Kellogg’s, Kraft, Wal-mart, Toyota, Nissan, Disneyland & DisneyWorld, Jack in the Box, Safeway, Gushers,  & Volkswagen.

 

Diverse Talent Group
Debbie Palmer

Debbie Palmer has been active in the entertainment industry working with children and young adults for the past 18 years. She heads the commercial youth division at DIVERSE TALENT GROUP. DIVERSE is a full service talent and literary agency representing children and adults for television, film, commercials and print. Recently, DIVERSE was listed as one of the top 15 talent agencies in the Los Angeles Business Journal. Debbie has worked with kids, teens and young adults that have gone on and achieved major success. Some of the most notable are: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Michelle Williams, Christiana Milian, Erika Christensen, Kaley Cuoco, Brenda Song, Ashley Tisdale, Taylor Lautner and Camilla Belle. Debbie has booked her clients on multitudes of national commercials and campaign endorsements. Some of the most high profile campaigns include: Dell, Old Navy, Hallmark, Got Milk, Febreze, Oreo, Fuji Film and Cheez It. Some of Debbie’s distinguished clients currently are ZANE HUETT (“Desperate Housewives”); SLADE PEARCE (“October Road”); DAVEIGH CHASE (“Big Love”); ALYSON STONER (“Alice Upside Down”); MARCUS PAULK (“Take the Lead”); JUSTIN MARTIN (“A Raisin in the Sun”); SCARLETT POMERS (“Reba”); KIMBERLY J. BROWN (“Big Bad Wolf”); MILES HEIZER (“Rails & Ties”) and BOBBY CARRADINE. Debbie is one of the most prominent commercial agents in the industry. With her solid long lasting relationships with casting directors, DIVERSE functions with the intimacy of a small agency and the command of a powerhouse.

  Osbrink Agency
Meridith Montgomery

Osbrink Talent Agency has been in operation since January 25, 1993 and is respected as one of the most professional and productive Youth and Young Adult talent agencies in the country.  The company has grown into a busy mid-size agency with their talented kids and ingénue young adults, heading film, television, print and commercial projects.  Osbrink takes pride in its unique hands on approach of the development of their clients, which is reflected by their success. An in-depth interview with the owners and staff of the Osbrink Agency was highlighted in the April 2002 Ross Report.
Dakota Fanning Charlotte’s Web, War of the Worlds, Dreamer, Hide and Seek, Man on Fire, “Friends”, Dr. Seuss: Cat in the Hat, Uptown Girls “Taken”, I Am Sam, Trapped, The Secret Life of Bees
Elle Fanning Babel, The Door in the Floor, Because of Winn-Dixie, Daddy Day Care, I Am Sam, “Taken”
Ryan Pinkston Full of It, Parental Guidance Suggested “Quintuplets”-FOX, “The Ryan Pinkston Thing”-MTV, “Punk’d”, Spy Kids 3, Soul Plane, Bad SantaTyler James Williams    “Everybody Hates Chris”- The CW, Unaccompanied Minors
Dee Dee Davis “The Bernie Mac Show”- FOX, “Strong Medicine” Aree Davis, The Haunted Mansion, “Everybody Hates Chris” The CW, Alyson Stoner, Cheaper By the Dozen 2, Cheaper By the Dozen, Missy Elliot Music Videos. Disney’s “Mike’s Super Short Show” Jake Lloyd, Star Wars-The Phantom Menace, Jingle All the Way, Unhook the Stars,Smuckers Campaign, Brett Kelly, The Sandlot 2, Bad Santa, Unaccompanied Minors, Damani Roberts, “All About the Anderson’s”- WB, The Best Man, Aria Wallace, The Perfect Man w/ Hillary Duff, “These Guys”, Roxy Hunter, Shelbie Bruce,         Spanglish w/ Adam Sandler, Accessory licensing deal with Claire’s Boutiques, Ashlyn Sanchez, Crash, “The West Wing,” ”Vanished”- FOX, Allen Alvarado, “29 Down”, Brandon Ratcliff, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Trevor Gagnon,  “Old Christine” with Julia Louis- Dreyfus, “Fly Me to the Moon” Jackson Bond,  “In Case of Emergency”- ABC, West Coast Customs,  “Pimp My Ride”- MTV, Chloe Bridges, “Freddie”- ABC, Mallory Low, Member of “The Slumber Party Girls,” “Just for Kicks”- Nickelodeon, Michael Alan Johnson, Disney’s “Mike’s Super Short Show”, Raven Goodwin,           “Just Jordan”- Nickelodeon, Eddy Martin,  “Just Jordan”- Nickelodeon, Kristen Combs, “Just Jordan”- Nickelodeon, Aleisha Allen, "Are We There Yet"?, Are We Done Yet? MacKenzie Mauzy, “The Bold and the Beautiful” CBS

  BBA Kids & Young Adults
William Bartoli

Vivian Gray- “Bayer/ Yaz,” “Wendy’s,” “Oscar Mayer”, Vanessa Chester- “Sons of Anarchy,” “Verizon”, Sophie McGuirk- “Chevy”, Lily Javaherpour- Lead in “Raspberry Magic”, Honor Jones- “Band-Aid,” “Sears,” “Kellogg’s”, Charlie Lea- “Kenmore,” “Hallmark,” “Cars.com,” “Best Buy”, Griffin Cleveland- Series Regular “The Karenskys” (Pilot), “Eleventh Hour,” “Hyundai,” Recurring “The Watch” (Pilot), “G.E.,” “Blackberry,” “Purina”, Billy Welch- “Desperate Housewives,” “Drake and Josh Ultimate Christmas Movie”, Breanna Cherie Wittman- “The Unit”, Dalton Kansas O’Dell- “Kings of Appleton,” Lead in “Rainbow Tribe”, Briana Lane- “Bones,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” Lead in “Secret Girlfriend” (Pilot), Gina DeVivo- “Hannah Montana,” “Scrubs,” “Mad Men,” “Miss/ Guided,” Recurring on “Just Jordan”, Heather Miller- “United States of Tara,” “Heineken”, Brighid Fleming- “Criminal Minds,” “Father’s Day,” “Game,” “The Burrowers”, Aimee Lynn Chadwick- Lead “Cummings Ranch”, Botnick Twins- Recurring on “Dirty Sexy Money”, Karson Magarian- “Best Buy,” “Playmates”, Samantha Boscarino- Series Regular “I’m with the Band” (Pilot), “Jonas,” “Bank of America,” “Sony Vaio”
Hector Garcia - “N.C.I.S.,” “The Cleaner,” “The Shield,” “Choices".

 
 
Alexandr [Lunya] Lunyov