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EXCLUSIVE: Black Box Management has signed character and comedian Rob Lathan connected nan heels of his move successful Amazon’s Emmy-nominated workplace comedy Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat.
Corporate Retreat is nan 2nd play of Jury Duty, nan bid putting a caller reality-hoax rotation connected nan talking caput mockumentary format, which has surgery retired arsenic 1 of nan astir celebrated comedies of caller years. Whereas Season 1 took spot successful a assemblage work mounting — dropping nan unsuspecting San Diego star contractor Ronald Gladden into a hidden-camera world populated by master actors playing retired cautiously orchestrated scripts — Season 2 focused connected Anthony Norman, a 25-year-old from Nashville who believed he was participating successful a documentary connected nan day-to-day of a mini business aft being “hired” arsenic a impermanent worker astatine a family-owned basking condiment company, but coiled up yet different unsuspecting reality-hoax hero.
In Season 2, Lathan plays Other Anthony, an earnest, oblivious worker pinch an offbeat comedic voice. Before landing nan role, he honed his sound performing astatine Upright Citizens Brigade, wherever he developed nan improvisational style that has go his trademark.
Black Box is an L.A.-based talent guidance and accumulation institution founded by CAA seasoned Mike Dill and WME alum Lowell Shapiro, who met arsenic kids astatine summertime camp. Repping writers, directors, actors, documentary filmmakers and contented creators, nan company’s roster includes Sue Kim, who is completing Sony’s doc connected Lisa from Blackpink; John Patton Ford, whose A24 film How to Make a Killing starring Glen Powell debuted earlier this year; and Harper Dill, writer of nan Jennifer Lopez rom-com Marry Me, who is presently penning aggregate projects for Amazon and preparing her characteristic directorial debut, based connected her individual acquisition during nan 2025 Palisades fires.
In a connection connected their latest signing, Black Box’s principals told us, “Rob is nan best. We’ve known Rob for a while, and we don’t really cognize galore group funnier than him.”
Beyond management, Black Box continues to turn its producing slate, pinch a half-hour drama successful improvement pinch Fierce Baby Productions, an unscripted bid alongside Propagate Media, and a scripted adjustment of nan HBO Max documentary American Pain.
Lathan continues to beryllium represented by Grace Kallis astatine Ginsburg Daniels.
