Pollstar | Agency Intel: How WME Electronic Music Head Stephanie LaFera Got A Crash Course With Early March 2020 Start Date
By: Ryan Borba Stephanie LaFeraWME2020 was a good year to learn new skills and try new things, but some examples are more extreme than others. “Monday, March 9 when they put out the release I was joining the company, I went to two meetings – one on Monday and one on Wednesday, and by Thursday the office was closed,” says Stephanie LaFera, an electronic music veteran who left her own Little Empire management company to lead WME’s electronic music division. “What we’d originally planned to do, and all the ideas I had, had to kind of paus...