ABOUT US

Debi Allen is an Essex girl. She studied drama at Ridley Studios under her brilliant teacher Peggy Batchelor who she now represents. Not surprisingly she chose a University as far away from Essex as possible and spent three years at The University of Ulster at Coleraine. Whilst at University she spent a term in Glasgow during their year of ‘Culture’ (it was 1990) and worked for TAG (part of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre). Then began her love affair with the Edinburgh Festival where she spent four summers working at the Fringe Festival in various capacities at The Gilded Balloon and Greyfriars Kirkhouse. On graduating she worked at the original Jongleurs comedy club in Battersea. A year later Debi set up Wizard Entertainment (with the help of Billy Marsh Associates) with an Australian agent Brendan Long. Brendan had had the genius idea of putting Rolf Harris into the University Circuit. It was a huge success and they also secured Rolf a slot on the main stage at The Glastonbury festival. When Brendan returned to Australia Debi was made an agent at Billy Marsh Associates and continued to work with the likes of Rolf Harris and the lovely (and much missed) Mark Speight. After nearly six years Debi accepted the new challenge of joining the literary agents Roger Hancock Ltd to set up a performers department. Debi spent five very happy years at Roger Hancock which culminated in her diversifying her client base from actors, presenters and stand ups into writers too. In 2002 Debi was headhunted to set up RDF Management for the RDF Media group. She started the company with her then assistant Vic Murray and twenty clients and built it up over seven years to an agency with five agents, three support staff and over a 120 clients. On April 1st 2009 she launched Debi Allen Associates Ltd.
 
Craig Latto has worked as an agent for over ten years. He helped set up Unique Artistes before moving to Silverfox Artist Management where he worked for a number of years. Craig joined RDF Management in Jan 2004 and worked there for five years. In 2009 Craig’s delighted to join Debi Allen Associates as a Senior Agent.  
 
Michael Ford was born and bred in Bristol. At ten years old he joined the ITV drama workshop and has worked in the industry ever since. He joined Debi at RDF Management in 2008, having spent 3 years as an agent with TCG Artist Management. Michael represents Actors (as well as the odd writer or two) and is passionate about Theatre, Film and Television, and new writing in particular. In 2009 Michael joined Debi Allen Associates.
 
Charlene McManus left University with a BA Joint Honours Degree in Arts Management and Theatre Studies in 2004. That summer she went to RDF Management for two weeks work experience and five years later was still there as the assistant to Debi Allen. Within a few months of starting she had to learn the ropes pretty quickly when she covered Debi’s maternity leave and, because she did such a great job, she took a similar amount of time off in 2008 to travel the world. In 2007, Charlene began taking on RDF Management's first child actors. In 2009, Charlene joined Debi Allen Associates as Debi's assistant as well as representing her selective list of young actors.