Industry Pros

As a personal manager she encompasses the word "proactive," in that she guides and provides consultation for her clients in every area of their lives. Ms. Dixon steers her talent on how to deliver what the casting director is seeking. I advise on image branding, technique classes, auditioning, and professionalism, by drawing on my experience and expertise from casting to lead them on the road to success.    

For 10 years, Jackie Dixon, of Zanee Entertainment LLC—a full-function talent management company—has been a leader in the entertainment industry. Coming from the world of casting into management; she has cast for the groundbreaking film Precious under the tutelage of Winsome Sinclair & Associates, and for the Oliver Stone film Pinkville. Her impressive roster of clients covers the entire spectrum of show business:  Theatre, Films, On Camera Commercials, Primetime television series, Commercial print, and Voiceovers.

          You have seen her clients over the course of her career in highly recognizable TV and films such as Blue Bloods, Blindspot ,Bull, Jessica Jones, She’s Gotta Have It, The Brave, Luke Cage, Person of Interest, Power, Boardwalk Empire, Gotham, Orange is the New Black, Law & Order SVU, Girls, The Good Wife, Madam Secretary, Friends with Benefits, The Sitter, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Dora the Explorer, Sleepwalk with Me, 30 Rock, One Life To Live, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The 22, Nurse Jackie, Gossip Girl, Sesame Street, and many more. Clients have screen tested in Los Angeles for Glee, X-Men First Class, The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg, Power Rangers, and Straight Outta Compton with F. Gary Gray. Clients have secured holding deals with ABC. Her growing business also involves a commercial print department working with top advertising clientsfor such companies as Verizon,Crest, Cheerios, Google, Metro PCS, Coca-Cola, Bud Light, Intel, Elizabeth Arden, and Target to name a few.

                  In most recent years, impressive projects for her clients have included:  Rapper/Actor Jermel Howard in The First Purge, Power, All Eyez On Me (Tupac biopic), Major Crimes, Hostages, Orange is the New Black, The 22, Law & Order SVU, The Americans, Judd Apatow's Girls on HBO. He is also a principal talent in Nike and Powerade past commercial campaigns. Moises Acevedo in The First Purge, Netflix’s Daredevil, Orange is the New Black, Rose’s Shoes, Remember Me, How to Make it in America, and Louie.  Child stars whose careers she launched include Kayla Maisonet, Uilesses Silguero, star of various Nickelodeon projects and Nicole Berger in The Longest Week as the young Olivia Wilde.

A 20 year veteran of agenting and managing actors, having started my career along side the legendary Bonnie Liedtke, (famous for discovering Leo Dicaprio and Hillary Swank), together we signed and developed Zac Effron Corbin Bleu, Chad Michael Murray, Joanna Garcia, Selma Blair, Donald Faison, Taran Killam and many many more actors who are working steadily to this day. Also, while at Talentworks LA I was able to work in the adult division and helped develop adult actors like Joel McCale, Chelsea Handler, Eric Stonestreet and James Franco, as well as helping to re-establish names like Farrah Fawcet and William Shatner.  Currently managing actors at Mills Kaplan Entertainment my list is strong with underdog character actors.... (See IMDB page for list),  character types being my passion and frankly my most lucky! I also produce original content in the form of a scripted web series about Hollywood called... "Good Job, Thanks!", and in the very near future will be hosting a new series designed to educate and entertain actors called "Free Hollywood Showcase Live". My goal is always to help actors better understand this entire process. And demo reels can't  "just be footage". 

Stephen Belden is currently a manager at More/Medavoy. He is from Canton, Ohio and graduated with a degree in Film from The Ohio State University. He got his start in entertainment working in development at BBC Worldwide Productions and The Mark Gordon Company before becoming a talent agent at Sovereign Talent Group. After that, he moved into management at ATN Entertainment where he focused on developing both talent and writers. He has established himself at More/Medavoy as a manager with a sharp eye for young talent and continues to build a roster of up and coming actors, writers, and directors while also being active in developing and producing projects alongside partners Erwin More and Brian Medavoy.

Barry has been an agent at Dulcina Eisen Associates for over 31 years. The agency handles actors ages 18-100 (yes we have had clients working in their 90's) in theater, film and television. We cover the full gamut in those areas!. One of our proudest achievements is having had 3 separate clients get decapitated on "Gotham".  Barry's proudest personal achievement is having bicycled across the state of Iowa 32 times.