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\n\tAgent, co-head of CAA\u2019s cultural business strategy group<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIn 2012, Kevin Lin was a biology major at Harvard, mapping out a future in science. However, his path to Hollywood began during his junior year when a friend suggested he check out the American Repertory Theater on campus. \u201cI was really eager to find community,\u201d Lin recalls. \u201cFor me at the time, it was specifically queer community.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tProducer Diane Borger took him under her wing, and Lin spent his remaining college years at the theater. After graduation, he figured he\u2019d take one summer before grad school to work in theater. Cosmically, the only paid theater internship he could find was at CAA. Fourteen years later, he\u2019s still there.<\/p>\n \n\tNow an agent and co-head of CAA\u2019s cultural business strategy group, Lin has built a reputation for spotting talent early. His first client as an agent, whom Lin had signed at only 24 years old, was playwright Matthew Lopez, then an Off Broadway writer who has since won a Tony and an Olivier, directed \u201cRed, White & Royal Blue\u201d and its upcoming sequel. Shortly after came Jordan E. Cooper, still an undergrad at the New School, who became the youngest Black showrunner in television history with \u201cThe Ms. Pat Show.\u201d Then he signed Celine Song, who had never written a screenplay before creating \u201cPast Lives\u201d and \u201cThe Materialists.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhat I\u2019m really drawn to is just ambitious storytellers, regardless of the medium that they\u2019re in,\u201d Lin says. \u201cWhen I find clients who are also mission-aligned with me personally, I really want to see stories in the world that I can see myself in.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMost recently, that alignment crystallized when he first watched \u201cHeated Rivalry,\u201d the Crave\/HBO Max series starring Hudson Williams, whom he signed in December 2025. By episode six, when Williams\u2019 character comes out to his mother, \u201cit was the first time I had seen an Asian man come out on camera,\u201d Lin says. \u201cThat completely broke me open.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHis work extends beyond individual clients through CAA Amplify, the agency\u2019s annual conference, building community for underrepresented voices in media and entertainment. His motto, borrowed from President Obama, which he also has on a personalized desk plaque: \u201cHard things are hard.\u201d And his advice to his younger self? \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to show up, even when it might be uncomfortable or you might not feel welcome at first.\u201d \u2014 Kennedy French<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tInfluences:<\/strong> Michelle Kwan, Diane Borger, Joe Machota<\/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 variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agent, co-head of CAA\u2019s cultural business strategy group In 2012, Kevin Lin was a biology major at Harvard, mapping out a future in science. 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