About

GCM (Gail Cowan Management Ltd) is a professional actors' agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. GCM has a fantastic reputation within the industry, one of competence, care and dedication. The agency aims to create an authentic and collaborative environment through developing a genuine understanding of our clients. Gail has been an actor's agent since 1983, primarily servicing the market of feature films, theatre, TV dramas, corporate, voice-over work, and commercials.

Our team have a great understanding of actors abilities and can tailor pitches to suit, we work collaboratively as a team and aim to be across all projects and clients. We provide our actors with advice, recommendations as well as offer workshopping or practice self-tapes in our studio. We consider theatre to be an important tool in actor development, which is why we encourage our actors to be actively involved with productions and show our support by seldom taking a commission.

GCM has a separate division focusing on our younger talent, Chrysalis by GCM. We have an internationally recognised reputation for developing young talent and our aim is provide the industry with an elite and boutique agency for children and teens.

At the GCM office, we have our own fully equipped studio and editing facilities, which allow us to record our own audition tapes at very short notice. We introduced the studio in 2013 after noticing the growing interest in New Zealand actors. It took many years of hard work and dedication but our tapes now have an international reputation for quality and great performance. 

Our studio produces fast-turnaround audition tapes for our talent, with ready access to a professional actor/director, who will read, film, direct and edit. We can also provide workshopping and constructive feedback for developing actors, or those who wish to run lines before an audition. 

Tapes from our studio have had numerous international hits, such as Luciane Buchanan in Netflix's 'The Night Agent' and 'Chief of War', Ana Scotney in the Ben Falcone series 'Gods Favorite Idiot', Stacey Leilua in the series about Dwayne Johnson's life - 'Young Rock', Gary Young in Starz series 'Outlander' S3 and 'Warrior S3', Duane Wichman-Evans Jnr in 'Avatar: The Way of the Water', Albert Latailakepa in the Disney series 'The Artful Dodger'.

Our other major international castings include Jen Van Epps in 'M3GAN' and 'Time Bandits', Nell Fisher in 'Stranger Things S5' and also starring alongside Elijah Wood in the film 'Bookworm', Nathalie Morris in Stan series 'Bump' and feature film 'Petrol, Lara Macgregor in Netflix series 'Clickbait', Xana Tang in Netflix/ABC series The Letdown S1-2, Dave Fane in the US film 'Next Goal Wins' and US series 'Our Flag Means Death' directed by Taika Waititi,  Dominic Ona-Ariki in the SBS anthology Erotic Stories, Allan Henry in ‘Cocaine Bear’, Thomasin McKenzie in ‘JoJo Rabbit’, 'Totally Completely Fine' and more, Roxie Mohebbi in the Australian series 'Critical Incident', Davida McKenzie in the Australian film 'Speedway', Tane Williams-Accra in US film 'Fantasy Island', and many more international wins.