Former Gersh Agent Paul Rosicker Partners With Manager Brian Ferrantino To Launch Quest Entertainment And Management

Matt Grobar
·2 min read

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Rosicker, an agent at Gersh for over 35 years, is moving into management after founding Quest Entertainment and Management with his husband, manager and producer Brian Ferrantino.

Rosicker started at Gersh three weeks after graduating from UCLA in 1988, and was promoted to agent within three years, after starting out in the mailroom. Prior to his departure from the agency, he served as Senior Vice President, focusing on television talent and helping to build a department that now claims over 300+ series regular clients.

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Ferrantino has had his own shingle, Ferrantino Entertainment, since 2010. Prior to that, he worked for Robert Duvall’s production company, Butcher’s Run. While there, the company produced Scott Cooper’s Academy Award-winning debut feature Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, as well as the Emmy-winning AMC Western miniseries Broken Trail.

Clients joining Rosicker and Ferrantino at Quest include Emmy winner Brendan Hunt, the co-creator and star of the Apple TV+ smash Ted Lasso, as well as Matt Jones (Bob Hearts Abishola, Breaking Bad), Kiele Sanchez (Station 19), Rachel Marsh (Unstable), Ever Carradine (The Handmaid’s Tale), Adrian Pasdar (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Emily Pendergast (Veep), Duane Henry (NCIS), three-time Daytime Emmy winner Chandler Massey (Days of Our Lives), Christina Moore (I Believe in Santa), McKenzie Chinn (Will Trent) and A.J. Langer (Private Practice), among others.

In a statement to Deadline on the launch of Quest, Rosicker said, “Moving into management is a challenge I need right now. I am grateful to my Gersh family for last three decades. It was a pleasure to learn from everyone there. I’ve watched Brian build a successful business and I am eager to embrace this next quest, (ahem) with him.”

Added Ferrantino, “I’m thrilled to partner up with Paul for this next chapter and look forward to all the exciting times ahead.”

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