EXCLUSIVE: UK expertise agent Andrew Roach has arrange a brand new store and brought A Completely different Man star Adam Pearson with him.
Roach has exited Maya Jama’s company Madness to arrange DEIversity Expertise Administration, which is able to focus primarily on representing deaf, disabled and neurodivergent (DDN) expertise.
Based mostly within the South of England, DEIVersity opens with A Completely different Man and Beneath the Pores and skin star Pearson, Britain’s Bought Expertise winner Lee Ridley aka the Misplaced Voice Man and Nice British Bake Off contestant Briony Could Williams. Roach has been working with Pearson for a few years.
Roach mentioned he’ll primarily however not completely signify DDN stars. He plans on hiring extra workers and, having been recognized with ME/Power Fatigue Syndrome, desires to place the highlight on brokers and expertise managers who’ve underlying well being situations.
Roach used to run his personal agency earlier than becoming a member of Madness two years in the past. A member of BAFTA’s Incapacity Advisory Group, he was one of many brokers Deadline spoke with for our 2024 deep dive into the expertise managers paving the way in which for the following technology of disabled expertise.
“I’m trying ahead to persevering with my work representing numerous expertise, with a selected concentrate on DDN individuals, in addition to being an advocate inside the business for inclusion and accessibility,” mentioned Roach.
“I additionally wish to elevate consciousness and encourage extra individuals from numerous backgrounds to contemplate a profession as an agent or expertise supervisor as we want extra illustration and variety in these roles. My lived expertise of getting an underlying well being situation and being an agent demonstrates that it’s doable to have a profession within the business if affordable changes are made and there’s a versatile method to how individuals work.”
