Principal Entertainment<\/a> LA as a manager, after more than 15 years at Untitled Entertainment, where he worked with a roster of high-profile and award-winning talent.<\/p>\n\n\tDaughtry represents actors across film, TV, and theater, working with both established names and breakout discoveries. Clients he works with include Juliette Lewis, Kate Walsh, Ben Hardy, Aidan Laprete, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Tracy Ifeachor, Chord Overstreet, Peter Mooney, Cara Gee, Brian Muller, Deion Smith, Jonathan O\u2019Neill, Cameron Kasky and Ryan Faucett, among others.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe began his career in representation at CAA after graduating from UCLA.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cPrincipal has a strong reputation for thoughtful, strategic representation, and I\u2019m excited to be joining a team that values long-term career building,\u201d Daughtry said in a statement to Deadline.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeparately at Principal LA, David Weidoff has been promoted to manager. Weidoff, a graduate of the USC School of Dramatic Arts, worked for EP Franco Bario (Sorry for Your Loss)<\/em> and showrunners Etan Frankel (Evel<\/em>) and Caryn Lucas (Country Comfort<\/em>) before joining Principal Entertainment LA in the fall of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Donovan to Principal. He brings a strong client roster and excellent reputation, and shares our collaborative, artist-first mindset,\u201d the partners at Principal shared. \u201cDavid is smart, thoughtful, and has a rare creative eye that you can\u2019t teach. Over the years, he\u2019s shown great instincts for talent and taste in material. We\u2019re excited to see him step into this next chapter as a manager.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPrincipal has been front and center this awards season with Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Seth Rogen for The Studio<\/em>, BAFTA and Academy Award-nominee Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners<\/em>, Emmy and Critics Choice Award-winner Tramell Tillman for Severance<\/em>, Independent Spirit Award-nominee Dylan O\u2019Brien for Twinless<\/em>, and Critics Choice Award-nominee Carrie Preston for the CBS hit series Elsbeth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Donovan Daughtry has joined Principal Entertainment LA as a manager, after more than 15 years at Untitled Entertainment, where he worked with a roster of high-profile and award-winning talent. Daughtry represents actors across film, TV, and theater, working with both established names and breakout discoveries. Clients he works with include Juliette Lewis, Kate Walsh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[439274],"class_list":["post-2268552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-principal-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donovan-Daughtry-Joins-Principal-Entertainment-David-Weidoff-Promoted.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268554,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268552\/revisions\/2268554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}