Gersh expands his partner class ranks with the promotion of two agents.
The Beverly Hills-based talent firm has added literary agent Sandra Lucchesi and talent agent Matt Vioral to partners, the company said Thursday. The promotions bring Gersh’s number of partners to 28, out of 150 agents in his ranks at locations in Los Angeles and New York.
“We are very proud of the leadership that Sandra and Matt have brought to the agency and their respective departments and how well they are respected by their industry peers. We are delighted to partner with them both,” said co-chairs David and Bob Gersh and managing partner Leslie Siebert in a joint statement.
Vioral started as an exec assistant at Gersh in 2006, became an agent four years later and was named after The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Next generationexecutive list in 2018. In June, he was one of 397 invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as a general member.
Viroal’s clients include Jacob Elordi, Joe Keery, Haley Lu Richardson, Ryan Eggold, Jason Isaacs, John Cusack, Mekhi Phifer, Kerry Bishe, Aisha Dee, Alexander Dreymon, Sasheer Zamata and Daniel Sunjata.
Lucchesi, who was the VP of the Motion Picture Literary Department in Gersh, is also on the advisory board of non-profit production banner We Do It Together. The partner has a client list that includes Andrea Arnold, Kevin Willmott, Richie Mehta, Anna Konkle, Vera Herbert, David Seidler, Karen Janszen, Angela Workman and Daniel Stiepleman. Both Lucchesi and Vioral remain based in Beverly Hills.
In August, Gersh brought in veteran agent Bart Walker — who joined ICM when CAA closed its mega deal for his rival — as a partner to bolster the company’s full-service client list on film, TV and stage.