EXCLUSIVE: ICM is centralizing its talent leadership. Lorrie Bartlett, Dar Rollins and Adam Schweitzer are being named co-heads of talent for the agency this morning. The new structure covers talent spread across all areas, including film, TV, theater, branding and new media. Under ICM’s previous setup, the agency had separate TV talent and film talent departments. The TV talent department was overseen by Mike Jelline, who left ICM on Monday, and the motion picture talent group by Schweitzer and Scott Schachter. “The creative community moves seamlessly across entertainment platforms,” ICM president Chris Silbermann said. “We’re realigning our leadership to a forward-thinking approach that encompasses the full scope of representation. Lorrie, Dar and Adam have distinguished themselves as exceptional agents and leaders and have earned the respect and admiration of their colleagues and the entertainment community. They are a natural choice to lead our talent department.”


Bartlett, Rollins and Schweitzer’s roster of clients include Oscar winners Al Pacino, Christoph Waltz, William Hurt and Dianne Wiest, Oscar nominees Abigail Breslin, Frank Langella and David Strathairn, Emmy winners Eric Stonestreet, Kelly Macdonald, Ray Romano and James Spader, Emmy nominees Kevin Dillon, David Duchovny, Christina Ricci, James Belushi and Michael Keaton, as well as film and TV stars Zoe Saldana, Tom Hiddleston, Josh Duhamel, Josh Gad, Sally Hawkins, Zachary Levi, Julia Stiles, Paul Wesley and Jordana Spiro. Bartlett joined ICM in 2008 as a senior motion picture talent agent. Rollins was named television talent agent at ICM in 2004. Schweitzer, who operates out of the agency’s New York office, was elevated to lead ICM’s motion picture talent department last year.
Over the past season, ICM repped 6 Oscar nominees, including winners winners Melissa Leo, Tom Hooper and Wally Pfister and 18 acting Primetime Emmy nominees. It booked 36 clients in Broadway or Off-Broadway productions and nearly 70 in pilots.


All smart great agents. This is where the business is now — one world.
What a great team of agents. This was a smart move on ICM’s part.
Genius move! Amazing agents with an even more amazing array of talent.
This is the right message for ICM to send! They’re putting the right people in charge instead of letting internal politics take the company down the wrong path. I see good things for the talent dept. with this group at the reins.
Troika is the name of a well-respected UK Talent Agency, so you can imagine my surprise when I read this headline.
Great move for ICM. Adam, Dar, and Lorrie are all incredibly classy agents. Very excited to hear this news.
Smart move for ICM. I’ve worked with all three of these agents and can’t think of a better trio. Congrats, guys!
Nice list of clients, why does ICM get bashed so much? They need a new publicist now as the place as always been great at everything but self promotion.
They get bashed because they have a really broken corporate culture. They aren’t encouraged to work as teams and the clients suffer for it. It’s too bad because smart people work there but the company just doesn’t have the willingness to adapt to the current reality. Just because these three are working together I wouldn’t expect any real change from ICM in terms of their day-to-day. Worst packaging department in town so clients shouldn’t expect movies to come to them from anywhere but casting directors. ICM can answer the phones and advise well but they cannot escape their DNA.
Brilliant move by ICM’s management. Classy, real, good people guided by a solid work ethic rather than by ego. Finally, some good news about the shape of our business today and moving forward. Bravo!
New ICM Policy: After we announce something on Nikki, everybody write fake positive comments before we get snarked to death. They have no film business. This would be the Onion Headline, if they mattered: Troika Heads Dept of Nothing; Promise New Leadership and More of the Same.
Haha 100% true
LOL….!!! Pretty funny!!
What a great way to start the day!
Agreed on the client list – not so bad at all. ICM is hardly a has-been agency with those kind of people. Or what’s better – a list of giant actors who are NOT working?
LOVE working with Schweitzer. Good call.
what are all of you people talking about? if i was icm i would be really nervous because every agency in town is looking at the client list and making plans to go after the good earners. lets see…patrick whitesell vs dar rollins. who will a client want to be with? this leadership is a joke. all are nice people and good agents but that does not mean they should be the top of the totem pole in a tough talent market. they never should have let tom burke out of the building. he could have run both depts and gone head to head with evey other agency.
You are so right “disgusted”. Good guys dont always make the best leaders. ICM has put their talent department in the hands of 3 nice agents that have no clout in the business. An actor will be embarrassed to say they are repped by ICM.
Well, bad guys DEFINITELY don’t make good leaders so not sure what to make of this comment…
really? tom burke? he’s the nicest guy in the world but who did he represent? also I’m sure he’s a lot happier on the other side of things, so nice try but you have no point
Tom Burke was an incredible agent with a phenominal client list. He is definetely much happier on the other side but he had a great list of some of the top earners on tv.
Great move. Exactly what ICM needed to do.
Great choice! These 3 agents are sophisticated, aggressive, talented and inspiring people. Fantastic move by ICM. Congrats, my friends. xoxox
Had the pleasure of working with Lorrie ages ago at Gersh. She is one of the most talented, hard working and smart agents out there. Her taste in material, clients, etc. is second to none. Also, she happens to be a really nice person too. Good to see the good guys get ahead for once!
She was trained by the Best of the Best – Joan Hyler. One of the great agents of all time and a damn good manager!
The fish stinks from the head. From Silberman, Berg and Chervin to Rizvi – the stench is unbearable.
New talent team? What a joke.
Dar Rollings reeks insincerity and onions. He has his head so far up Ted Chervin’s ass he can see Chervins own head.
It’s not fair for me to comment on ICM’s MP Talent department as they don’t really have one.
But didn’t ICM recently name two new heads of MP Talent as well as Jelline to the head of TV talent all within the past two years…? And now this? I think they are hoping by blending the two departments people won’t notice the huge gaping hole in feature talent currently being held together with paperclips and bullshit.
Of all the agencies ICM has the most internal flux. It’s been almost 5 years since the Broder merger and the place is still a mess.
There are some good agents at ICM (as with any agency) but most are average to below average and fall within the category of just happy to have a job in such a terrible market.
Chervin loves to talk about how his team are the Yankees. He just never says what year – but anyone can tell you it’s far from a Championship season.
This is a serious power move for ICM. They couldn’t have chosen 3 better leaders.
Youre absolutely right. They didnt HAVE anyone else to chose.
Nice to see ICM moving forward. They have some of the strongest talent in town but just need to be branded better as a strong collective unit vs. the old ICM which was “all for one and one for all”
Nice agents, but what a pathetic roster of talent.
Congratulations to all. Once again proving that ICM is such a forward thinking place, and they just don’t have the street cred of some of their competitors. Their clients do seem to work more though, don’t they????
Brilliant move on ICM’s & Chris Silbermann’s part. Perfect strategy to realign from within and maintain consistency of executives.
i’ve watched lorrie grow from her days as joan hyler’s assistant at WMA. she’s worked hard to get to where she is and deserves what she’s earned. dar is a mensch. good news for icm and congrats to them all!
…and what happens to Scott Schachter ?