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EXCLUSIVE: Carly Hoogendyk has joined Omnipop Talent Group, the New York-headquartered management and production company known for its work with comedic multi-hyphenates, as a talent
manager. She’ll be based out of the company’s West Coast office, there joining partners Bruce Smith and Zack Freedman. Hoogendyk established her knack for identifying rising comedic talent
as the editor of the Cramer Comedy Newsletter, an industry digest highlighting emerging comedic work across live, digital, film and animation. As a manager, she works with stand-ups, writers
and actors. Clients joining her at Omnipop include Tallie Medel (_Everything Everywhere All at Once_), Addison Anderson (_Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News_) and Cody Wilkins
(_Call Me Kat_). Also an independent producer of live comedy, Hoogendyk began her career in digital marketing before going on to serve as comedy booker at Caveat during its first year on
NY’s Lower East Side. She joined Authentic Talent & Literary Management as a coordinator in the comedy division in 2019 before going on to work as a manager at Artists First in 2021.
Currently, Hoogendyk produces “Cherry,” a weekly comedy show at the Public Hotel’s ArtSpace, hosted by Moss Perricone, August White, and _SNL_‘s newest cast member, Chloe Troast. WATCH ON
DEADLINE Smith founded Omnipop Talent Group in Los Angeles in 1990, with Freedman joining as manager in 2013 and becoming a full partner three years later. Notable clients of the company
include Maria Bamford (_Lady Dynamite_), Joel Kim Booster (_Fire Island_), Oscar Nuñez (_The Office_), Doug Jones (_Star Trek: Discovery_), Cooper Barnes (_Henry Danger_), Andy Kindler
(_Bob’s Burgers_), Matthew Patrick Davis (_Barbarian_), Ashleigh Hairston (_Craig of the Creek_), Guy Branum (_Hacks_), Jessica McKenna & Zach Reino (_Baking It_), and Scott Thompson
(_FUBAR_), to name just a few.