EXCLUSIVE: Todd Eisner, a 30-year veteran expertise agent, has resigned from A3 Artists Company, the place he was a Senior Agent within the Los Angeles expertise division for nearly seven years, to affix the Paradigm Expertise Company.
“Paradigm has lengthy admired Todd as an business veteran who brings an distinctive work ethic and fervour for his shoppers to all the things he does,” the company’s Companion Jim Dempsey stated in an announcement to Deadline. “With the identical artist-first strategy, Todd shall be a wonderful addition to our group of entrepreneurial representatives.”
Over the previous 12 months, Paradigm has been staffing up with the hires of Chris Until, Neil A. Cohen, Chris Until in addition to inner promotions, together with elevating 14 brokers to Companion.
Eisner is the most recent senior-level expertise agent to depart A3 up to now couple of months amid a turmoil on the company, culminating in a latest lawsuit filed by A3 companions Robert Atterman and Brian Cho towards the corporate’s chairman and majority proprietor Adam Daring.
“We’re sorry to see him go, however want him nothing however the most effective in his subsequent chapter,” Atterman stated about Eisner’s departure in an announcement to Deadline.
Nearly all of Eisner’s shoppers are anticipated to comply with him to Paradigm. The checklist of greater than 60 actors he has represented consists of Freddie Prinze Jr., Peter Facinelli (Twilight, Nurse Jackie), Jamie Lynn Sigler (Huge Sky), Corbin Bernsen (The Curse, Duster), Scott Grimes (Ted TV collection), Melissa De Sousa (The Finest Man: The Closing Chapter), Reno Wilson (Deadly Attraction TV collection), Coby Bell (Walker), Steven Kreuger, (Yellowjackets), Greg Germann (Ally McBeal, Greys Anatomy), Rick Hoffman (Fits), Larenz Tate (Energy franchise), Ted McGinley (Shrinking), Riley Voekel (Hightown), Krys Marshall (For All Mankind) and Robin Givens (Batwoman).
Earlier than becoming a member of A3 (then Abrams Artists) in 2017, Eisner spent 5 years at Modern Artists, eight years at APA (now IAG) and a decade at Writers & Artists. He began his profession within the mailroom at Triad Artists proper after faculty.
In departing A3, Eisner joins Jamie Pillet, companion and co-head of the expertise division, who just lately moved to WME, fellow companion and co-head of the expertise division Sheree Cohen, who grew to become a companion at Mainstay Leisure, amongst others.
In taking an unprecedented step of taking their boss to court docket, A3 CEO Atterman and President Cho accuse him of making a poisonous and hostile office and steering “what stays of a once-great firm into chapter 11,” referencing the slew of agent exits.
“In an astonishing run of terror, Daring has squandered all the things: A3 is in a state of chaos and dissolution as its brokers leap off the sinking ship and flee to A3 opponents, or wait in shock and worry for the following shoe to drop,” the 10-claim fraud and breach of contract criticism towards Daring, A3 itself and Superbrands Capital says.
