Aud Mason-Hyde, Star Of Sundance’s ‘Jimpa,’ Signs With Artists First​on February 10, 2025 at 5:59 pm

EXCLUSIVE: Aud Mason-Hyde, one of the breakouts of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Artists First for management. A queer trans nonbinary actor from Australia, Mason-Hyde stars opposite Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Jimpa, a semi-autobiographical family drama from returning Sundance filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande). The film […]EXCLUSIVE: Aud Mason-Hyde, one of the breakouts of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Artists First for management. A queer trans nonbinary actor from Australia, Mason-Hyde stars opposite Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Jimpa, a semi-autobiographical family drama from returning Sundance filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande). The film   

EXCLUSIVE: Aud Mason-Hyde, one of the breakouts of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Artists First for management.

A queer trans nonbinary actor from Australia, Mason-Hyde stars opposite Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Jimpa, a semi-autobiographical family drama from returning Sundance filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande). The film follows filmmaker and mother Hannah (Colman) as she takes her nonbinary teenager Frances (Mason-Hyde) on a trip to Amsterdam to visit their beloved gay grandpa Jim, aka “Jim-pa” (Lithgow).

In his review of the film out of Sundance, Deadline’s Pete Hammond called Mason-Hyde “perfectly cast.”

Mason-Hyde’s additional credits include the award-winning indie 52 Tuesdays, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, the Aussie ABC six-part series F*&#ing Adelaide, and the 2022 short film Right Here that played the festival circuit in Australia and was nominated for a number of awards. Also a poet, public speaker, and activist, Mason-Hyde was the winner of the Rumble U26 poetry slam in 2018 and did a TEDx talk on gender stereotypes at just 12 years old that garnered over 1 million views in a week online and landed them a Culture & Lifestyle spread in Vogue Australia.

Artists First, a talent management and production company focused on actors, writers, directors and producers in film, television, and digital media, has a client roster that includes Martin Lawrence, Awkwafina, Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Niecy Nash, Judy Greer, Will Arnett, Ike Barinholtz, Paul Walter Hauser, Kate McKinnon, Michael Showalter, Jon M. Chu, Lior Raz, Mitch Hurwitz and Cristela Alonzo, among others. Productions include Incoming, Twisted Metal, Quiz Lady, Central Intelligence, Like a Boss, Keanu, Black-ish, Mixed-ish, Grown-ish, The Last O.G., Hit and Run, and Reno 911!.

Other recent signings for the company include SEAL Team‘s Neil Brown Jr., Sinners star Miles Caton, and Grammy winner Ani DiFranco.