Metropolitan agency not closing doors
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Metropolitan Agency Not Closing Doors You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content March 18, 2008 9:19am SERVICES TO SHARE THIS PAGE. The rumors began
yesterday and then heated up because of an erroneous _Hollywood Reporter _story today. “People have been predicting my demise for 30 years,” Metropolitan talent agency topper Chris Barrett
just told me. But the agency has been going through tough times worsened by the recent writer’s strike. So the tenpercentery has downsized to a dramatic degree: where it once had 20 agents
at its height and then a dozen agents before the writers strike, Metropolitan will now consist of Barrett and 2 or 3 agents (including his sister-in-law Sara Schedeen) plus support staff
handling clients, he says. “It will not look like it did before. It’ll be a speed bump, not a battleship,” Barrett tells me. “We’re absolutely not closing. But I don’t want to run a company.
I want to focus on clients.” Barrett concedes that tough times led to groups of agents leaving or let go. “The writers strike and current de facto strike had something to do with my
decision,” he says. “Those are symptoms of a much larger disruption of the economy of show business.” He has an allied software business he says is thriving, MTA Interactive. 10 Comments
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