CAA Theater Agent Joe Machota to be Honored With Sardi’s Portrait
variety.comRebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Joe Machota, head of CAA’s theater department, will be recognized with the time-honored Broadway tradition of getting a caricature on the wall at Sardi’s.
Plenty of stars like Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hugh Jackman have portraits from the famed Broadway watering hole, but Machota’s tribute marks one of the rare times that Sardi’s is celebrating a theatrical agent.
A nearly 20-year veteran of CAA, Machota represents big name talent like Scarlett Johansson, Glen Powell, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong’o.
Recently he’s been responsible for stage appearances ofJim Parsons and Zoey Deutch in “Our Town,” Sarah Paulson in “Appropriate,” Eddie Redmayne in “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,” Sutton Foster in “Once Upon a Mattress,” Nicole Scherzinger in “Sunset Boulevard” and George Clooney in “Good Night, and Good Luck.” And he isn’t just a suit, but a former actor who appeared in the original cast of the Rialto’s “Mamma Mia!” Richard Baratz, who has drawn the caricature since 1976, creates approximately 20 new portraits a year.
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