Yasmin McDonald moves to CAA after 11 years with United Agents

Yasmin McDonald has joined entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) as an agent in its books department after more than a decade with United Agents. 

Based in the agency’s London office, McDonald will focus on identifying books and other literary International Property (IP) suitable for adaptation to screen and stage both from within CAA’s books department, and from external sources across the UK and Europe.

McDonald will also continue to represent authors, illustrators, screenwriters and directors such as as Booker-shortlisted Paul Murray, John O’Farrell, JP Delaney and Lisa Mulcahy, director of “The Tourist”, among others. 

McDonald was previously partner at United Agents and led the book to screen department. Prior to United Agents, McDonald was an agent at AP Watt Ltd. 

With a career spanning 18 years, she has contributed to major adaptations including the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series “A Very English Scandal”, starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, for the BBC/Amazon; “The Dig”, starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes for Netflix and a Mrs Doubtfire stage musical, currently running in London’s West End and touring in the US. 

Over the course of the past year, CAA’s Books department says it has sold the motion picture or television rights to more than 350 book titles, with over 50 currently in production or recently released.