The management company that represents local comedians including Aaron Chen (ABC TV’s Fisk) and Sam Campbell (Taskmaster UK) has gone into administration, leaving dozens without representation — and, in some cases, owed money — four months before Australia’s leading comedy festival kicks off.
ABC Arts understands that on November 28 the director of Sydney-based management company The Junkyard, Craig Ivanoff, called some of his clients to tell them the company was insolvent and closing down, citing poor financial management. ABC Arts has contacted Ivanoff for comment.
On December 2, The Junkyard and Ivanoff’s production company, West Street Sports, appointed liquidator Andrew Spring from Jirsch Sutherland Insolvency Solutions to wind…
