Rising filmmaker and sketch comedian Curry Barker has signed with UTA.
Barker is known for his viral horror movie Milk & Serial, a found footage project made for $800 that amassed 1.6 million views on YouTube and landed him meetings with practically every horror house and producer in town. He is in post-production on his next feature, Obsession, a horror film he wrote and directed, with financing from Capstone.
The native of Mobile, Alabama is also one half of the sketch comedy channel That’s a Bad Idea, which he runs with creative partner Cooper Tomlinson. Their sketches take inspiration from shows such as I Think You Should Leave and Key & Peele and blend comedy with horror. That’s a Bad Idea has amassed more than 700 million views across platforms, and boast 1.7 million TikTok followers, 827,000 YouTube subscribers and 681,000 Instagram followers.
As a horror filmmaker, Barker is also developing a feature length version of The Chair, a mind-bending 25-minute short that has attracted more than 7 million views on YouTube. And as an actor, he has appeared on season three of Dave, the most recent It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia season and B-Side for Taylor.
Barker is also reped by Underground and Yorn Levine.
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