WME has promoted talent agent Rich Gambale to partner in the Beverly Hills-based firm’s non-scripted TV department.

Gambale represents a range of talent across non-scripted TV and documentaries, including producers, filmmakers, actors, musicians and models. His client roster includes Selena Gomez, whose unscripted TV credits include Selena + Chef for HBO Max and Selena + Restaurant for Food Network/Max.

Gambale also sold Gomez’s doc Louder: The Soundtrack of Change to HBO/Max, and her Mi Vecino, El Cartel show to ViX. Having joined WME via the mailroom in 2011 and come up through the talent agency’s trainee program, Gambale packaged for Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps banner projects for Netflix that include the Unsolved Mysteries reboot, the Emmy-nominated The Future Of docuseries and the upcoming documentary Extraterrestrial. 

The new partner also sold the alien Encounters docuseries to Netflix for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV, and the Spanish-language talk show TV series Pan y Circo to Amazon, which is hosted client Diego Luna and co-produced by another client, Gael Garcia Bernal.

Gambale also represents Martin Short, who is set to host ABC’s reboot of Match Game, and Gigi Hadid, who will co-host Netflix’s Next in Fashion series. And he represented Ryan Coogler and his Proximity Banner for their push into non-scripted TV with Apple/A24’s Stephen Curry: Underrated and Onyx/Hulu’s Anthem. 

Gambale’s other clients include Clay Newbill, Matt Iseman, Bunim/Murray Productions, 44 Blue Productions, Lightbox, Michelle Rodriguez and Amy Adams and The Bond Group. WME’s non-scripted department is led by co-heads Amir Shahkhalili and David Sherman, who work across documentaries, reality TV, game shows, competition series and broadcast news.