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GCM (Gail Cowan Management Ltd) is a professional actors' agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. Chrysalis was created as a boutique child-actor division, fostering talented young actors and seeking quality opportunities both locally and overseas.
GCM has a fantastic reputation within the industry, one of competence, care and dedication. The agency aims to create an authentic and collaborative environment through developing a genuine understanding of our clients. Gail has been an actor's agent since 1983, primarily servicing the market of feature films, theatre, TV dramas, corporate, voice-over work, and commercials.
GCM's puts a large focus on developing talent. We can provide advice, recommendations as well as offer workshopping or practice self-tapes in our studio. We consider theatre to be an important tool in actor development, which is why we encourage our actors to be actively involved with productions and show our support by seldom taking a commission.
We can provide our actors with advice, recommendations as well as offer workshopping or practice self-tapes in our studio. We consider theatre to be an important tool in actor development, which is why we encourage our actors to be actively involved with productions and show our support by seldom taking a commission.
Our employees have a great understanding of actors abilities and can tailor pitches to suit. We also often employ actors in certain positions at GCM, as this perspective allows us to provide better service in all areas of the business. We produce fast-turnaround audition tapes, with access to someone who can read, film, direct and edit, we can also provide workshopping and constructive feedback for developing actors or those who wish to run lines before an audition. All of our agents are positioned within the business to best work to their strengths and skill-base. We work collaboratively as a team and aim to be aware of all projects and clients. We’re aware of industry reservations around actors working in the agency, however their positions are outside of the pitching and booking areas of the agency, and we have clear rules to ensure no conflicts of interest arise.
At the GCM office, we have our own fully equipped studio and full editing facilities, we provide a professional reader who will also direct and coach. This allows us to record our own audition tapes as required and at very short notice. We introduced the studio in 2013 after noticing the growing interest in New Zealand actors. It took many years of hard work and dedication but our tapes now have an international reputation for quality and great performance.
Tapes from our studio have had numerous international hits, such as Luciane Buchanan in Netflix's 'The Night Agent' and 'Chief of War', Ana Scotney in the Ben Falcone series 'Gods Favorite Idiot', Stacey Leilua in the series about Dwayne Johnson's life - 'Young Rock', Gary Young in Starz series 'Outlander' S3 and 'Warrior S3', Duane Wichman-Evans Jnr in 'Avatar: The Way of the Water', Albert Latailakepa in the Disney series 'The Artful Dodger'.
Our other major international castings include Jen Van Epps in 'M3GAN' and 'Time Bandits', Nell Fisher in 'Stranger Things S5' and also starring alongside Elijah Wood in the film 'Bookworm', Nathalie Morris in Stan series 'Bump' and feature film 'Petrol, Lara Macgregor in Netflix series 'Clickbait', Xana Tang in Netflix/ABC series The Letdown S1-2, Dave Fane in upcoming US film 'Next Goal Wins' and US series 'Our Flag Means Death' directed by Taika Waititi, Dominic Ona-Ariki in the SBS anthology Erotic Stories, Allan Henry in ‘Cocaine Bear’, Thomasin McKenzie in ‘JoJo Rabbit’, 'Totally Completely Fine' and more, Roxie Mohebbi in the Australian series 'Critical Incident', Davida McKenzie in the Australian film 'Speedway', Tane Williams-Accra in US film 'Fantasy Island', and many more international wins.