CAA has employed Yasmin McDonald as an agent in its Books division, based mostly out of the company’s London workplace.
McDonald joins CAA following an 11 year-tenure at United Brokers, the place she was a Companion and led the Guide to Display screen division. She was beforehand an agent at AP Watt Ltd.
In her new function at CAA, McDonald will concentrate on figuring out books and different literary IP appropriate for adaptation to display and stage each from inside the company and from exterior sources throughout the U.Ok. and Europe.
McDonald will proceed to characterize revered authors, illustrators, screenwriters and administrators, together with “The Bee Sting” creator Paul Murray, “Rooster Run 2: Daybreak of the Nugget” author John O’Farrell, “The New Spouse” creator JP Delaney, graphic novelist and cartoonist Tom Gauld and “Lies We Inform” director Lisa Mulcahy.
In her profession spanning 18 years, McDonald has contributed to such profitable variations because the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning collection “A Very English Scandal,” “The Dig,” “Earwig,” “Love, Loss of life + Robots,” “The Woman Earlier than,” the upcoming movie “That Christmas” and the “Mrs. Doubtfire” stage musical presently operating in London’s West Finish and touring within the U.S.
Previously yr, CAA’s Books division has bought the movement image or tv rights to greater than 350 e-book titles, with over 50 presently in manufacturing or just lately launched, together with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Depart the World Behind,” “American Fiction,” “Dumb Cash,” “All of the Mild We Can not See,” “The Morning Present,” “The Watcher,” “The Summer season I Turned Fairly,” “Maid” and “The place the Crawdads Sing.”
