EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed comic and actress London Hughes for illustration, Deadline has realized.
In 2019, Hughes grew to become the primary British Black girl to be nominated for the Edinburgh Pageant Fringe’s Finest Present Award for To Catch a D*ck, which was launched on Netflix as her debut comedy particular in December 2020.
Exec produced by Kevin Hart, To Catch a D*ck recounts Hughes’ adventures in courting. A movie spin-off, Jezebels, is at present being developed with Hartbeat Productions and Semi-Formal. Scorching Mess, her second movie in growth, is being produced with Will Packer Productions.
At present, Hughes can be in growth with Netflix on her first unique TV mission, Good Sense of Humor, which she’s going to write, star in and produce alongside Clerkenwell and Hartbeat Productions. She launched her first e book, Residing My Finest Life Hun, within the fall of 2023 and can quickly start touring her subsequent stand-up present, To Catch a Bouquet.
Different notable purchasers of Artists First, the expertise administration and manufacturing firm targeted on actors, writers, administrators and producers in movie, tv, and digital media, embody Martin Lawrence, Awkwafina, Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Judy Greer, Niecy Nash, Will Arnett, Ike Barinholtz, Paul Walter Hauser, Kate McKinnon, Michael Showalter, Jon M. Chu, Lior Raz, Mitch Hurwitz and Cristela Alonzo, to call a couple of. Productions embody Central Intelligence, Like a Boss, Keanu, Black-ish, Combined-ish, Grown-ish, The Final O.G., Hit and Run, and Reno 911!.
Most not too long ago, the corporate signed Amber Iman, the veteran theatre artist at present nominated for a Tony for her position as Rafaela within the Broadway manufacturing of Lempicka.
Hughes continues to be represented by UTA, Curtis Brown Group within the UK, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
