{"id":531058,"date":"2026-07-17T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/531058\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:19:15","slug":"jury-dutys-rob-lathan-signs-with-black-box-management-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/531058\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jury Duty’s Rob Lathan Signs With Black Box Management (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Black Box Management<\/a> has signed actor and comedian Rob Lathan<\/a> on the heels of his turn in Prime Video\u2019s Emmy-nominated<\/a> workplace comedy\u00a0Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCorporate Retreat\u00a0is the second season of\u00a0Jury Duty, the series putting a fresh reality-hoax spin on the talking head mockumentary format, which has broken out as one of the most popular comedies of recent years. Whereas Season 1 took place in a jury duty setting \u2014 dropping unsuspecting San Diego solar contractor Ronald Gladden into a hidden-camera world populated by professional actors playing out carefully orchestrated scripts \u2014 Season 2 focused on Anthony Norman, a 25-year-old from Nashville who believed he was participating in a documentary on the day-to-day of a small business after being \u201chired\u201d as a temporary worker at a family-owned hot sauce company, but wound up yet another unsuspecting reality-hoax hero.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat\u2019 Team Calls Show\u2019s Secret Sauce \u201cA Celebration Of Common Decency\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn Season 2, Lathan plays Other Anthony, an earnest, oblivious employee with an offbeat comedic voice. Before landing the role, he honed his voice performing at Upright Citizens Brigade, where he developed the improvisational style that has become his trademark.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Box is an L.A.-based talent management and production company founded by CAA veteran Mike Dill and WME alum Lowell Shapiro, who met as kids at summer camp. Repping writers, directors, actors, documentary filmmakers and content creators, the company\u2019s roster includes Sue Kim, who is completing Sony\u2019s doc on Lisa from Blackpink; John Patton Ford, whose A24 film\u00a0How to Make a Killing\u00a0starring Glen Powell debuted earlier this year; and Harper Dill, writer of the Jennifer Lopez rom-com\u00a0Marry Me, who is currently penning multiple projects for Amazon and preparing her feature directorial debut, based on her personal experience during the 2025 Palisades fires.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement on their latest signing, Black Box\u2019s principals told us, \u201cRob is the best. We\u2019ve known Rob for a while, and we don\u2019t really know many people funnier than him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond management, Black Box continues to grow its producing slate, with a half-hour comedy in development with Fierce Baby Productions, an unscripted series alongside Propagate Media, and a scripted adaptation of the HBO Max documentary\u00a0American Pain.<\/p>\n

\n\tLathan continues to be represented by Grace Kallis at Ginsburg Daniels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Black Box Management has signed actor and comedian Rob Lathan on the heels of his turn in Prime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[262089,156,190687,111,139,69,262090,437],"class_list":["post-531058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-black-box-management","tag-entertainment","tag-jury-duty-presents-company-retreat","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rob-lathan","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}