“MAM read the brief properly and sent us a short, specific shortlist. Not a long one to wade through. The actor we cast was on it.”
An agent who reads your tape, tells you the truth about it, and gets you into the right rooms.
MAM Associates represents actors, writers, directors, producers, and screen crew across the UK and international markets. Every application is read by a working agent. Every reply is signed by a person. No filters, no auto-responses, no silent pile.
First time here? Here is how we work.
Pick your path
Three audiences. One door each.
MAM represents three groups, and each one gets its own page, its own checklist, and its own form. Pick yours, and you will not have to wade through anything written for somebody else.
Path 01 · Talent
I’m an actor
Drama-school trained or a comparable body of work. Current screen tape. UK based or with right-to-work for UK productions. You want an agent who reads the script before the audition and tells you the truth after it.
Open the actor path → Path 02 · TalentI’m a director, writer, or producer
Credits on the page already, and a point of view worth backing. You want honest notes, real packaging help, and a partnership measured in years rather than meetings. Multi-hyphenate careers are welcome here.
Open the literary path → Path 03 · CrewI’m screen crew
Above-the-line and key heads of department. Cinematography, design, camera, sound, and post. Represented through the Crew Services Agency, built around how productions actually book crew.
Open the crew path →Hiring talent? Production briefs and casting enquiries belong on the Hire page. It has its own checklist and its own reply window.
Credits across productions, broadcasters, studios & brands
Where the work has landed.
A selection of broadcasters, studios, schools, and brands our talent and leadership team have credits with across film, television, and commercial work. If a logo here is on your wishlist, you are in the right place.
Outcomes · Proof
What changes when MAM is in the room.
Logo walls look good. Results look better. Here is what working with the agency delivers, for the talent on the roster and for the productions that hire them.
- 40+ booked roles secured for roster talent in the last twelve months [placeholder]
- 12 festival selections across roster-led projects [placeholder]
- 9 repeat collaborations with returning productions [placeholder]
- 48h typical turnaround on production enquiries [placeholder]
“Owen and the team treat representation as judgement, not admin. My materials are sharper, the meetings I am in are the right ones, and when the answer is no it comes with a reason.”
“They understand the literary side, not just performance. The packaging notes changed how the project was received in the room.”
How it works
Four steps from first contact to representation.
No mystery about what happens next. Here is the path from the first email to a signed agreement, so you can plan around it.
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Apply or enquire.
Use the application form if you want representation. Use the contact page if you are casting or crewing a job. Short and specific beats long and generic, every time.
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We read it personally.
Every application and every enquiry is read by the team. No filter, no intern, no auto-reply. We weigh it against the roster, the work we already know about, and the shape of the agency right now.
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Materials & meeting.
If there is a clear fit, we come back to you with a focused conversation. Talent get a real materials review. Productions get a brief-led shortlist of the right names, not the long ones.
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Decision & next steps.
You get a considered yes, no, or not yet, and the reasons behind it. When it is a yes, the work of representation, packaging, or supplying talent starts the same week.
The team
Run by people with real credits and on-set judgement.
An agent who has never been on a set reads a showreel differently than one who has. The people who lead MAM have produced, shot, directed, and performed. That experience sits behind every call the agency makes on your behalf.
Founding Partner · Principal Agent · Cinematographer · Producer
Owen A. Smith
Fifteen-plus years in screen production with over 150 credits across feature film, television, documentary, commercials, and branded work.
Before the agency, Owen shot, produced, directed, and wrote across drama, documentary, sport, and commercial work. He came into the industry through Graphic Design at Epsom School of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts) and the London advertising studio Adam B Colour Services. On campaigns for Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi, and McCann Erickson. A Royal Air Force College Cranwell graduate with a Queen’s Commission, he served six years as a Flight Lieutenant in command of 70 personnel. That discipline, and a working cinematographer’s instinct for what reads on camera, shapes how he represents talent today.
Partner · Acting & Talent Agent · Actress · Producer
Jane Jackson
Seven years in film, six in representation. A performer’s view of how acting careers actually get built.
Trained as an actress on the Spotlight-accredited method acting course at the Brian Timoney Method Acting Studio in London. Jane came to representation through her own work on set. Which means every casting conversation, every self-tape note, and every long-arc career plan runs through someone who has stood on the other side of the camera.
Creative Partner · Award-winning Producer & Filmmaker
Linzy Attenborough
Two decades producing across Bollywood features, British independent cinema, commercials, television, and music video.
Trained as an actor at UK drama schools before moving into production. Founded Thought Juice Films in 2005, beginning with corporate work and expanding into music videos, commercials, and television. Served as 1st AD on twelve features including On The Line and Exodus, managed the Disney · Star Wars · Lucasfilm UK toy advertising campaign, and was Production Manager on Chandu Champion. Producer on the micro-budget features Wolf Garden and The Alice Paradox. Her award-winning short films stream on Amazon Prime.
Assistant Agent · Actor · Writer · Director (stage: Mark Paul Denham)
Paul Jeffery
A professional actor since thirteen. A working writer-director with multiple best-director, best-feature, and best-script wins.
East London, classically trained at Academy Drama School with screen acting under Director Mark Normandy, plus Technical Theatre at Hoxton Hall (sound, lighting, stage management). Continued at Raindance in directing, directing actors, and film & TV producing. Recent on-camera credits include El Cucuy, Pixi Dust, Voyeur, Escape, the lead in Caught In-Between, and Reza in the Sky Max pilot Football Fantasy.
Two doors. Pick yours.
Ready to take the next step?
Whether you want representation or you have a production to cast and crew, the agency reads every message and replies personally. Pick the door that fits. The right person will see it.