Sacha Passero Leaves IAG After Almost 12 Years

New York talent agent Sacha Passero is leaving IAG, the agency where she has worked for almost 12 years across it and its predecessor, APA. Deadline reported on 10 November 2026 that her contract with IAG has come to an end and has not been renewed.

A talent agent represents actors and other performers. The job covers finding work for clients, negotiating their contracts and guiding their careers over many years. Clients usually stay with one agent for as long as the working relationship holds, so a change at the top of a list can ripple across many people's plans.

Passero joined APA at the start of 2015, moving from Kazarian/Spencer/Ruskin & Associates. Her career began as an assistant at Innovative Artists. She then joined KSR in 2011, where she became an agent, before the move to APA.

Over her time at the agency, she has worked with a range of performers. Those named in the report include Lily Gladstone, Alicia Witt, Lyndsy Fonseca, Arielle Kebbel, Mariana Trevino, Tom Payne and Clark Backo.

Agents move between agencies fairly often, and a contract that is not renewed is a common way for that to happen. For the clients on her list, the practical question is who handles their next deals. That decision sits with each performer and the agency, and it is not yet clear how it will be handled.

Passero's departure is the kind of change that rarely reaches the public eye, yet it affects the people whose calls, auditions and contracts pass through her office. Her name is now part of the wider run of moves across the business that show up on trade sites each week.