Zebedee Management, a talent agency that represents models and actors with physical and learning disabilities.
Zoe Proctor, a model-turned-performing arts teacher for disabled adults, was saying that while her students "were so talented and keen", they faced limited opportunity. Zoe Proctor and her sister-in-law, Laura Johnson wondered how, without a talent agency, Zoe's students and other disabled people, would ever get acting or modelling work. So they decided to set one up themselves.
With casting directors listing job adverts on industry websites every day, describing the look, age or gender required, Zoe and Laura also decided to put their clients forward for work whether or not disability was listed in the advertisement.
"If we waited for a call saying 'disability', we'd have no jobs," says Laura.
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