UTA Partner Josh Katz Exits After 30-Year Run
Thirty years after he started in the mailroom, UTA partner Josh Katz has left the agency.
The departure was reported by Deadline on 18 September 2026. No next destination was given.
Katz is a native New Yorker who joined UTA in 1996 after graduating from SUNY Albany, according to Deadline. He began in the mailroom, the entry-level post room that has long worked as a training ground for young Hollywood agents. Seventeen years later he made partner in 2013, a senior position that includes an ownership stake in the organisation. That means about 13 of his 30 years were spent as a partner.
As a motion picture talent agent, an agent who finds film roles and negotiates contracts for performers and film-makers, Katz assembled a wide roster. His clients over the years included Rhea Seehorn, Rob Delaney, Josh Duhamel, Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Nicholas Braun, Nick Offerman, Jessica Biel, Emerald Fennell and Michael Showalter, Deadline reported. The list spans network and streaming actors, comedy performers and writer-directors working across film and television.
His elevation to partner came in October 2013 alongside Jay Gassner, Chris Hart and Mike Jelline, as reported at the time by The Hollywood Reporter. Gassner, Hart and Katz were all serving as motion picture talent agents when they were promoted, according to a contemporaneous Deadline account. The four joined the ownership ranks together, a step that put them among the agency's senior decision makers.
Katz declined to comment when contacted about his exit, Deadline said. That keeps any plan for what comes next under wraps for now. No reason or exact timing for the departure was disclosed.
The exit follows a change at the top of UTA, the talent agency. Co-founder Jeremy Zimmer ended a run of nearly 13 years as chief executive in June 2025, according to Deadline.
What makes this stand out is tenure. A 30-year stay at a single agency covers several cycles of hiring, promotion and client movement. In a business built on personal relationships, those long runs shape teams and rosters well beyond one desk.
