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CAA Hires Yasmin McDonald as Agent in Books Department
Yasmin McDonald joins CAA's London office following an 11 year-tenure at United Agents, where she was a Partner and led the Book to Screen department.
In her new role at CAA, McDonald will focus on identifying books and other literary IP suitable for adaptation to screen and stage both from within the agency and from external sources across the U.K. and Europe. In her career spanning 18 years, McDonald has contributed to such successful adaptations as the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series “A Very English Scandal,” “The Dig,” “Earwig,” “Love, Death + Robots,” “The Girl Before,” the upcoming film “That Christmas” and the “Mrs. In the past year, CAA’s Books department has sold the motion picture or television rights to more than 350 book titles, with over 50 currently in production or recently released, including “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Leave the World Behind,” “American Fiction,” “Dumb Money,” “All the Light We Cannot See,” “The Morning Show,” “The Watcher,” “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” “Maid” and “Where the Crawdads Sing.”
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