Etiquette: checking client list of a referral

It seems odd that he wouldn't be willing to tell you who this person is.

I recently got referred myself and the producer who referred me, not even a personal friend, had no trouble telling me the name. I didn't even have to ask. He gave me not only the name of the company but also who he would be contacting.

I don't think it would be offensive, but I don't know, I've never had to ask.

Hi AP,

You can always ask the agent for her client list once you make contact with her, agents have no problem providing this info. But you don't necessarily need to get her list before you submit to her.

If you have the opportunity to submit to her through your friend before you find out who she reps, I'd go ahead and let your friend submit. Her client list is irrelevant if she's not interested in repping you if she is interested you can do whatever vetting you need to before saying yes. Just because someone wants to rep you, doesn't mean you have to sign with them

Dev

He may have just took the question personally, like you were being ungrateful, since he offered to introduce you to an agent and your question may have come off like 'how do I know this agent is good enough for me'. Is the agent at a major agency? If they are then I'd just keep quiet and go with it. Take any opportunity you have and then, as someone else says, if the agent wants to rep you you can ask all the pertinent questions.

Sometimes when referring people, I withhold information so as not to embarrass myself. Because people can get very excited about an opportunity and run their mouth off to the wrong people and then you look stupid.

Like say I'm going to introduce a writer friend to an agent friend and then the writer friend tells someone 'this agent is looking at my work' (although they haven't looked at it yet) and then it gets back to the agent who is like who is this person dropping my name? Then they find out they're a friend of mine and then the agent is like why are you telling people I'm looking at this guy's work? And then I look stupid and have to explain that I told him I'd introduce him to the agent, not that the agent would read anything -- either way, I've lost my ability to introduce someone else to the agent after all this. This is really convoluted, but it happens. More often then you'd think. Small town and all.