Sydney-based management company The Junkyard, run by Craig Ivanoff, has stranded dozens of comedians without representation, just weeks before comedy festival season kicks off.
The Junkyard website was live but mostly blank until December 4, when it was taken down. On Friday, it featured a gif of a dumpster on fire.) and Sam Campbell has gone into administration, leaving dozens without representation — and, in some cases, owed money — four months before Australia's leading comedy festival kicks off.
"It's still early days in the investigations into the reasons for the failure of the companies and the true creditors' positions . We are waiting to get access to the companies' files/records and for the directors to provide the respective creditors' lists." Registrations for next year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival closed on November 20, less than a fortnight before The Junkyard became insolvent.
"He never projected anything other than total confidence in Junkyard's ability to stay afloat," Boxall says."I find it hard to believe ... that he didn't know when he signed me that his business was in serious trouble," Larsen says."I didn't lose any money with him. The timing was terrible. I probably wouldn't have left my old agent if he hadn't promised me the world.
Earlier this year, the company was awarded $400,000 in funding — $200,000 from the ABC, and $200,000 from Screen Australia — for a Fresh Blood pilot by comedians Danielle Walker and Lauren Bonner, due for release next year.
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