YCAA

Range is impressive. Clarity is bookable. The industry casts the actor it can place.

Most advice about getting an agent focuses on the résumé. The credits, the training, the produced pages. All of it matters, and none of it is what the decision actually turns on.

By the time we are talking, the talent is a given. What we are weighing is quieter. Is there a lane we can open that you could not open alone. Do we believe in where this is going. Are we the right people to spend the next decade fighting for it.

A no is rarely a verdict on your work. Often it just means the fit is not there, and the honest thing is to say so.

If you are an actor or a writer thinking about representation, the better question is not whether you are good enough. It is where you are trying to go and who is genuinely built to take you there.

Meet the people behind YCAA.

Jason Norris, President and Principal Agent. YCAA was built on one idea: represent actors the way you would want your own family represented. He leads on signings, strategy and where the agency goes next.

Megan Bishop, Talent Agent. In your corner from first audition to final booking, across film, television, commercial and voiceover.

Alex Fortaleza, Literary Agent. Leading our literary division, representing screenwriters across film, television and theatre.

Three people. One roster. One standard.

Meet Alex Fortaleza, YCAA’s Literary Agent.

Alex brings years of experience across film, television, production and music licensing. He understands how scripts move from the page into development, what producers are looking for, and what helps a project get noticed.

Over the years, Alex has built strong relationships with producers, executives and creatives across the industry. Those connections, along with the respect he has earned, give him a valuable understanding of how to position material and get it in front of the right people.

We’re proud to have Alex leading YCAA’s literary department and helping writers move their projects forward.

A proud new chapter for YCAA.

Thank you to eBOSS Canada for sharing the news of our new Literary Department, led by Alex Fortaleza. We’re excited to begin representing the writers behind the stories and characters audiences love.

Read the full article below.

YCAA LAUNCHES LITERARY DEPARTMENT, APPOINTS ALEX FORTALEZA TO LEAD IT | eBOSS Canada YCAA, a Toronto talent and literary agency, launches a literary department led by new Literary Agent Alex Fortaleza. YCAA Literary debuts at TIFF Market in September 2026 in Toronto.

In July 2019, YCAA opened in Toronto on one idea: build the agency we would want our own family to be part of.

Seven years later, we are adding a new department. Today we are launching YCAA Literary, led by Alex Fortaleza, representing screenwriters across the Canadian screen industry.

It is the same evolution respected agencies like The Characters made before us: talent representation first, literary second. We are proud to follow it.

Writers create the characters our actors bring to life. It was only a matter of time before our representation reflected that.

See you at TIFF Market this September.

YCAA. Taste. Strategy. Conviction.

Canadian talent has always had range, discipline, and craft. What's different now is the reach.

Canadian actors are booking internationally. Canadian writers are getting their stories made. Canadian productions are being recognized as some of the best in the world, not the best "for Canada."

That is worth celebrating today, and every day this industry keeps proving it.

Happy Canada Day to the artists, crews, producers, casting directors and industry professionals helping Canadian stories travel further than ever.

Here’s the math most actors don’t want to talk about.

A roster with 400 names gives you 1/400th of a strategy.

A curated roster gives you a plan.

Volume is a business model. And to be fair, it can work. A large agency can book regularly because volume eventually wins. More actors, more submissions, more chances.

But that does not mean every actor is being pushed. It does not mean every actor is being positioned. It does not mean every actor is being seen clearly.

In that model, the agency can win while the actor disappears.

YCAA chose a different path. We chose trajectory.

That’s why the roster is selective.

We don’t measure success by how many people we represent. We measure it by what they become.

Because working hard with an agent who is coasting is not a career.

It’s a treadmill with good lighting. Being an actor in an agency that has hundred of actors is a winning strategy…but for who?

Great characters start on the page.

Some of the most powerful moments in film and television didn’t begin on a set or in a casting room. They began with someone, alone, staring at a blank page, and deciding they had something worth saying.

That’s where everything starts.