Lucy Dickins Joins CAA as Managing Director After Departing WME
Veteran booking agent Lucy Dickins has joined CAA as managing director, the agency announced Monday. She had spent the past four years as global head of contemporary music and touring at WME, having joined from International Talent Booking in 2019. CAA co-chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd called her a tremendous business leader with invaluable global management experience. Her arrival does not affect the current co-heads of global touring at CAA: Darryl Eaton, Rick Roskin, and Emma Banks. Dickins will also serve on CAA's managing director committee in addition to working directly with artists. Her departure from WME was announced Friday; the CAA landing followed within the same weekend.
Why it matters
Dickins is one of the most connected agents in international touring markets, and her move sharpens CAA's infrastructure in European and global live business. For artists at WME in the contemporary music space, a senior department head departure of this magnitude almost always comes with roster movement in the weeks that follow, and competing firms should treat the next 30 days as a recruitment window. When agents of this seniority move, they do not arrive alone; WME will feel the downstream attrition. For brands building live event sponsorships and touring activations, the consolidation of more major touring talent under CAA means sponsorship conversations with that roster route through one place, giving the agency more leverage in those discussions. Any manager currently renegotiating international touring guarantees should factor the Dickins move into their agency-selection process.
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