Manager Aaron Folbe Joins Underground

EXCLUSIVE: Beverly Hills-based management and production company, Underground, has bolstered its team with the addition of Aaron Folbe as Manager, Deadline has learned.

Folbe joins after a little over two years at Industry Entertainment, where he served as Lit Coordinator. In his new role, he will continue to focus on supporting and developing the careers of writers, directors, and performers.

Folbe’s new role comes shortly following a major win for his clients Adam and Daniel Cooper, who in June sold their short story “I Used To Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale” to Amazon MGM Studios for feature development, with Ryan Gosling and his production company General Admission attached to produce. Folbe took on the Cooper twins as clients while at Industry and closed the deal in between his exit from that company and his Underground hire. The Coopers are set to adapt the screenplay for the film, set in a “post-post-apocalyptic” world where former zombies struggle to reintegrate.

In a statement on Folbe’s hiring, Underground founding partner Trevor Engelson told Deadline, “Aaron is the perfect combination of smarts and hustle. He fit in immediately and we are so excited to have him join Underground. We are lucky to have him.”

On the lit side, Underground reps clients including Jason Micallef (The Acolyte), John Phillips (No Hard Feelings), Kevin & Dan Hageman (Star Trek: Prodigy), Chris Romano (Blue Mountain State), Kay Oyegun (This Is Us), Leon Neyfakh (Fiasco, Slow Burn), Pagan and Andrew Deutschman (Crawl 2), Sascha Rothchild (XO, Kitty, The Bold Type), Chelsea Davison (Peacock’s Ted), Rebecca Murga (Will Trent) and Jalysa Conway (9-1-1: Lone Star). Additionally, the company reps performers including Celeste Barber (Wellmania), Jessie Ennis (Mythic Quest), YG (White Boy Rick), Isaiah John (Snowfall), Alex Karpovsky (Girls, Homecoming) and Michael Zegen (The Penguin, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). 

Best known for exec producing shows like Paramount+’s Heathers and the crime drama Snowfall, which last year wrapped its final season on FX, Underground’s upcoming projects include Hulu’s animated comedy Bad Friends — based on the hit podcast from comedians Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino — as well as 2nd Squad and Don’t Come to LA for Amazon.