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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mel Rodriguez Signs With Innovative Artists Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed actor Mel Rodriguez for representation in all areas. Most recently, Rodriguez was seen recurring on Shonda Rhimes' Netflix series The Residence as White House engineer Bruce Geller, a deceptively central figure in the show's murder mystery. The actor is perhaps best known for his role as Todd on Fox's Emmy-nominated comedy The Last Man on Earth, which ran for four seasons. More from Deadline Melissa Joan Hart Signs With Innovative Artists Entertainment Mel Rodriguez Departs 'CSI: Vegas' Following Jorja Fox And William Petersen 'CSI: Vegas': Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria & Mel Rodriguez Join CBS Sequel Rodriguez first came to prominence for his Critics Choice-nominated performance on HBO's Getting On, alongside Laurie Metcalf and Niecy Nash. He was a series regular on the Netflix animated series Carol & The End of the World, as well as Showtime's On Becoming a God in Central Florida, and appeared as Marco Pasternak on AMC's Better Call Saul. In film, Rodriguez's credits include MGM/UA's Overboard, as well as Fat, writer-director Mark Phinney's film in which he stars as Ken, a food-addicted man struggling with getting his life in order. He continues to be managed by Stacy Abrams. Recent signings for Innovative include Taylor Polidore Williams, Brandee Evans, Shanola Hampton, Melissa Joan Hart, and Bobby Soto, as well as lit signings such as Debra Fisher, Peter Noah, Hugh Dillon, and Christian Donovan, and Meg Deloatch. Coral Tree Partners acquired a minority stake in the agency in late March, putting it on a path toward renewed growth.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Monroe Capital Supports Coral Tree Partners' Investment in Innovative Artists Entertainment
CHICAGO, April 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monroe Capital LLC ("Monroe") announced it acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the investment in Innovative Artists Entertainment, LLC ("Innovative Artists") by Coral Tree Partners. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, Innovative Artists is a talent agency that represents actors, writers, directors, comedians, voice actors, and other entertainment professionals in television, film, theater and live events. In conjunction, the company has rebranded the agency's existing Innovative Artists brands under a singular, unified entity as Innovative Artists Entertainment. The agency has offices in both Santa Monica and New York. This transaction is representative of Monroe's Sports, Media & Entertainment Finance Vertical, which provides financing solutions for media and entertainment companies in film and television, music, representation, traditional media, digital, live entertainment and adjacent businesses. About Monroe Capital Monroe Capital LLC ("Monroe") is a premier asset management firm specializing in private credit markets across various strategies, including direct lending, technology finance, venture debt, alternative credit solutions, structured credit, real estate and equity. Since 2004, the firm has been successfully providing capital solutions to clients in the U.S. and Canada. Monroe prides itself on being a value-added and user-friendly partner to business owners, management, and both private equity and independent sponsors. Monroe's platform offers a wide variety of investment products for both institutional and high net worth investors with a focus on generating high quality "alpha" returns irrespective of business or economic cycles. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and has 11 locations throughout the United States, Asia and Australia. Monroe has been recognized by both its peers and investors with various awards including Private Debt Investor as the 2024 Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Year, Americas and 2023 Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Decade; Inc.'s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List; Global M&A Network as the 2023 Lower Mid-Markets Lender of the Year, U.S.A.; DealCatalyst as the 2022 Best CLO Manager of the Year; Korean Economic Daily as the 2022 Best Performance in Private Debt – Mid Cap; Creditflux as the 2021 Best U.S. Direct Lending Fund; and Pension Bridge as the 2020 Private Credit Strategy of the Year. For more information and important disclaimers, please visit View source version on Contacts For more information, please contact: Zia UddinMonroe Capital LLC312-523-2374zuddin@ Daniel AbramsonBackBay Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lexi Underwood, Case Walker & Kat Cunning Starring In Horror-Comedy ‘Bad Karaoke'
EXCLUSIVE: Lexi Underwood (Cruel Summer), Case Walker (The Other Two) and Kat Cunning (Purple Hearts) have signed on to star in the feature film Bad Karaoke, a horror comedy from District 78 Films and Father Greg Productions. Shooting begins this month in LA. The film follows a group of friends in a cover band making their way from Portland, Oregon, to perform at a wedding in Napa. When they discover an abandoned karaoke machine in the back of a dive bar, songwriter Emily (Underwood), bassist Noah (Walker), and their motley band crew must find a way to defeat the cursed machine before it finishes them all off. More from Deadline Alden Ehrenreich, Catherine Hardwicke, Tom Skerritt, Lexi Underwood To Be Honored At 20th HollyShorts Film Festival 'Cruel Summer': Lexi Underwood & Sadie Stanley Discuss How Season 2 Premiere Episodes Set The Stage For A Small Town Scandal 'Cruel Summer' Season 2 Trailer Earns Record-Breaking Viewership For Freeform Ahead Of June Premiere Cunning plays the band's lead singer Hannah, who has come to terms with their career as a cover band musician only to learn it might become the death of them. Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. are directing from a script by Lightbody and Spencer Yaras. Producing are Yaras, Adam Bradshaw and Brendan Petrizzo. Emma Fleming cast the film. District 78 is made up of Lightbody, Steinmiller and Yaras, who produced 2023 mockumentary Bootyology (Gravitas Ventures) and are best known for their work as music producers and music directors for TV's Dancing With The Stars, The Masked Singer, and So You Think You Can Dance, amongst others. Underwood broke out on the Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere. She went on to play Malia Obama in Showtime's limited series The First Lady before joining the cast of Freeform's Cruel Summer. Actor and singer Walker starred in the Emmy-nominated series The Other Two and Nickelodeon's Monster High franchise. Cunning is known for HBO Max's Rap Sh!t, Netflix movie Purple Hearts and series Trinkets and HBO's The Deuce. Fleming recently cast the film I Really Love My Husband, which premiered at SXSW this past weekend. Yaras said: 'We knew we wanted to do something that paid tribute to our love of horror comedies as well as music, so we thought 'what if karaoke killed you?'' Lightbody added: 'Which happens a lot, actually.' Underwood is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Jackoway Austen. Walker is repped by Innovative Artists, Elysian Heights, and Skrzyniarz & Mallean. Cunning is repped by Innovative Artists and Untitled. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery All The Songs In 'Severance' Season 2: From The Who To Ella Fitzgerald 10 Brand New Emmy-Eligible Shows Coming This Spring
