Andy Stabile of ICM joins Verve as a partner and head of Unscripted

exclusive: Veteran non-fiction agent Andy Stabile joins Verve as partner and head of Unscripted, bringing the agency’s number of partners to ten. Stabile has spent the past six years at ICM Partners, which he left after CAA acquired the agency. Before that, he had been with AAC for 14 years. The start date of him on Verve is to be defined.

Bill Thompson, who has served as head of Unscripted at Verve since joining the agency four years ago when the agency began expanding into space, will remain.

“Andy brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Verve and we are thrilled to have him join the agency and partnership,” Verve Partners said in a statement. “Adding him will not only strengthen our current Unscripted business, it will also allow us to expand our ability to bring promotion to a wider range of creators.”

It is not yet known which customers will follow Verve di Stabile. While at ICM, he represented production companies, camera talent, showrunners and directors in television, film and digital non-fiction, including 3 Ball.the the big loser), Original Productions (Deadliest Catch), Anchor Ent (Rebel Hearts), Big Coat Media (love it or list it), Figure 8 film (wives sisters), glass int. (tank), Grandma’s home entertainment (a sign of doom), Langley (policemen), Remedy Entertainment (Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER), Shaggy Ent. (Are you smarter than a fifth grade?) and start Ent. (Riddle of the people). Camera Talent as Ken Jeong (a masked singer), Nicole Turner (entertainment tonight), and a host of culinary TV stars, including Food Network’s Duff Goldman, Molly Yeh and Antonia Lofaso. In the documentary space she has worked with independent film studio Wavelength, whose film, The Cave Of Adullam, won the Documentary and Audience Awards at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and with directors such as Rachel Flett (Presentation by Selma Blair), Trish Gillespie (the devil you know), and Sabah Folayan (whose streets).

“I couldn’t be more excited to be joining the Verve team,” said Stabile. “They have built an amazing business with a great culture and whose values ​​are completely aligned with mine. I know that the customer-centric approach to representation and true cross-departmental integration will ensure that customers on the Unscripted team are as excited as I am about joining Verve. “

Stabile’s hiring in Verve follows the latest move to Range of Michael Kagan, the former head of international television and media at ICM Partners, who also left when the CAA acquisition concluded last month. Kagan joined the management company as a partner and director of international non-screenwriting and co-director of national non-screenplay.