- Current SNL cast member Sarah Sherman has signed with WME for representation spanning Film/TV, Comedy, and Brand Partnerships.
- Her new team includes six agents across four departments, moving over from UTA.
- She continues with Rise Management for film/TV management.
- The deal follows her Cannes-premiering Mubi film and her December 2025 HBO stand-up special.
Sarah Sherman, the comedian, actress, and writer known to Saturday Night Live fans as Sarah Squirm, has signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME). The agency will work with Sherman as she builds out her film and TV footprint alongside her original projects.
At WME, her team includes Matthew Balick in Film/TV Literary, Michelle Bohan and Perry Weitzner in Film/TV Theatrical, Samantha Korn in Comedy, and Tim Curtis and Max Rudman in Brand Partnerships. She moves over from UTA and continues with Rise Management for film/TV management.
Sherman joined SNL as a featured player in October 2021 and was bumped to repertory status in 2023, becoming one of the show’s standout players. Last December, she released her debut comedy special, Sarah Squirm: Live + In The Flesh, directed by Cody Critcheloe and featuring John Waters, on HBO.
She’ll next appear in Mubi’s slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The signing adds Sherman to a busy year of comedy pickups for WME. The agency recently landed Anora breakout Ivy Wolk in a similar move from UTA, and signed Michael Tiddes after his Scary Movie reboot crossed $200M globally.
WME also broadened its unscripted bench this year, adding RHONJ‘s Melissa Gorga for brand partnerships and content development.
Takeaways
This is WME doubling down on a talent type it’s clearly bullish on in 2026: sharp, internet-savvy comedic voices with real crossover credibility.
Sherman isn’t just an SNL cast member; she’s got a horror film out of Cannes, and an HBO special under her belt, which is exactly the kind of multi-hyphenate profile agencies want to package into bigger deals.
Keeping Rise Management and her legal team in place while adding WME’s muscle suggests this is about scaling opportunities, not restructuring her core team.
Does WME push Sherman toward more prestige film roles, or lean into her SNL brand for scripted/unscripted deals? Could the new Brand Partnerships team turn her chaotic, body-horror comedic persona into an unconventional but sticky endorsement play?
