EXCLUSIVE: CAA is letting go of a number of agents today. I hear the cuts are primarily impacting the television — scripted and unscripted — and the film departments. Some of the notifications are still happening but overall, the staff reductions are said to involve around 20 people.
As Deadline reported last month, CAA in October started the process of year-end evaluations and department reviews that was expected to result in departures; today’s cuts are said to be part of that. We will update with more information as it becomes available.
A rep for CAA, which employees about 3,400 people, declined comment.
The move comes amid intense scrutiny, with lists of CAA agents rumored to exit, including veterans with established client rosters, circulating around town over the past couple of weeks. It also joins a similar round of end-of-year staff cuts at UTA last week.
Today’s departures follow CAA’s March layoffs when just under 20 people were let go across a handful of departments in content areas, including talent.
CAA just crossed the one-year mark under its new owner, Francois-Henri Pinault’s Artémis, which completed a majority stake acquisition in September 2023. Just before that, in August 2023— amid the double WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike — about 60 CAA staffers were laid off in departments such as TV Lit, music and IT.
