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Exclusive: Director-actor-writer Keith Powell has signed with Rain for management.

Powell started his career in front of the camera, perhaps known best for his series regular role as Toofer on 30 Rock. He most recently guest-starred on Apple TV+’s Shrinking.

Powell is currently directing the one-hour drama Will Trent for ABC, having just wrapped on the ABC half hour comedy Not Dead Yet. Some of his other directing credits include Interview With The Vampire for AMC, Dickinson for Apple TV+, Big Sky for ABC, and Single Drunk Female for Freeform.

As a writer he has also developed with HBO and Film 44.

Other acting credits include Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Better Things, This Is Us and Grace and Frankie.

Powell also is the founder and producing artistic director of Contemporary Stage Company, where he was behind productions starring Lynn Redgrave, Keith David, Jasmine Guy, Sean Patrick Thomas,...

Bradley Glenn, literary agent at the Kaplan Stahler Agency, left earlier this week and has been setting up meetings with other agencies. At Ksa, Glenn was listed as head of the literary department and represented mostly directors. The circumstances surrounding Glenn’s exit are unclear. A rep for the agency said, “it was a mutual parting of ways and the agency wishes him well,” while multiple sources indicated that Glenn may have been let…...

Alan Braun has been named a partner at the Kaplan-Stahler-Gumer Agency, which has changed its name to Kaplan-Stahler-Gumer-Braun to reflect the promotion. In addition, the agency has beefed up its ranks with the addition of three new agents, Bradley Glenn, Ra Kumar and John Judalena. Braun joined the boutique literary agency 2 1/2 years ago as an agent representing writers and directors as well as producers working in the reality/unscripted genre. His client list includes a range of comedy and drama writers as well as Hallock & Healey Entertainment, the indie production shop behind the Sci Fi Channel hit Scare Tactics.