About
A working life spent on the other side of the camera.
Pyle Management was founded by Ryan Pyle. The firm represents actors, presenters and performers, and is built around a very small list.
Ryan began in print. Between 2002 and 2010 he reported from China for the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Forbes and Fortune. He lived in the country for twenty years and covered it as a working correspondent throughout.
He has written four books and published two books of photography. His photographic work has been exhibited around the world, and he has lectured at The Explorers Club in New York.
From print he moved into television, presenting and producing documentary series shot on location. That meant years of being the person in front of the camera and, at the same time, the person responsible for getting a production financed, crewed, permitted and delivered. Both halves of that are the reason this agency exists.
An actor deals with an agent who has been cast, directed and cut. A producer deals with an agent who has sat on the other side of the same conversation, with the same schedule and the same budget. Pyle Management was built to represent talent from that position rather than from a desk.
The firm keeps a very small list on purpose. The whole proposition is that a client has the attention of the person whose name is on the door, which stops being true the moment the list grows.
How we work
- Representation only. Pyle Management does not sell photography, showreels, training or any other service to the performers it represents, and never makes representation conditional on buying anything.
- Commission is taken from what a client earns on work the agency has found, and from nothing else. There are no signing fees, retainers or administration charges.
- Terms are agreed in writing before any work-finding service begins.
- Any money received on a client's behalf is held in a separate client account and paid on promptly.