What's the difference between a talent manager and a theatrical agent?
A talent manager, generally what they are looking to do is to manage your career. They are hopeful that they can be with you as your career takes lots of great turns going forward. If you are a young person starting off your manager may be involved in helping you get your first commercial, your first roadway play, your first film. All of those things can be great and what they are hoping is that after you do your first one you will get your next one and your next one after that. The talent agent generally is responsible for going through what we call the break down service which represents all the different casting possibilities that are out there in the country day to day. Somebody is looking for somebody to play milkman, somebody is looking for somebody to play a corporate executive. And all of these things come through the breakdown services and the talent agents will look at the breakdown services and say "Yeah, I got it for that." Managers may also subscribe to the breakdown services and may also have the ability to say, “Hey I got a guy who is great for this." But they may not have the ability to get an audition for the talent. So talent managers often work with or in tandem with talent agents in order to get their clients into auditions and into jobs.
