About CESD Talent

CESD President and CEO Paul Doherty Welcomes You to Our Agency

We’re proud to be celebrating in 2025 our twentieth anniversary as CESD.

CESD Talent Agency is well-known for its exceptional representation of a diverse artist clientele including celebrities, adult and emerging actors, dancers, content creators, models, prominent adult & young voice-over performers, and voice directors.  Based in the media capitals of the world, Los Angeles and New York City, the company’s unique services include offering adult and emerging talent performers complete representation for talent-theatrical/film-TV, dance, digital content, voice-over commercials, animation and gaming, Mocap, anime, conventions, promos/trailers/narration, television & radio affiliate marketing, and on-camera commercials and print.

CESD started in Hollywood as Cunningham & Associates, founded sixty-two years ago by the energetic legend Bill Cunningham. Cunningham opened a New York City office in 1971. That same year T.J. Escott joined the firm and brought it, as CED, to nationwide prominence with style and integrity as its President until 2004. Ken Slevin brought his vibrant and energetic style to the agency in 1982 and then joined with Paul Doherty as co-owner and President of CESD from 2005 until his retirement in 2025.  Paul Doherty came to the firm in 1989 to run the agency’s powerful voice department, creating a new template for customer service and the marketing of talent and is now leading the agency as President and CEO.

CESD has thirty-five agents in its two offices.  It continues its dynamic industry dominance through the multitude of business and cultural changes brought on by the digital world. Its leadership continues to deliver the same thoughtful guidance for its clients and first-rate talent services for its customers that have come to be industry standards.

Paul Doherty is based in Los Angeles at 310-475-2111

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