Marcato Artists

Marcato Arts is a brand-new performing arts agency providing unique, upscale, and exceptionally engaging live entertainment.

Founded by Jason Lyle Black in May 2025, Marcato represents a small, niche roster of managed acts, and offers artist development services on a consulting basis to off-roster acts.

From one of the most followed violinists on all of social media to a Broadway singer who performs in 32 different languages, each Marcato Artist provides a live experience found nowhere else in the industry.

How It Began

A veteran touring performer himself, Jason Lyle Black knows firsthand the power of audience engagement, having created one of the most booked instrumental piano shows in America.

Having always been involved in the business side of his own career, Black long considered launching his own management agency.

In early 2025, after receiving requests for advice from numerous other touring artists, Black realized the need for an agency focused on both traditional representation as well as artist development, branding, and consulting.

And thus…Marcato Artists was born!

A Unique Model

Marcato is more than a booking agency—we are a (1) production, (2) branding, and (3) booking house, focused on:

  1. Concept design & show development, focusing on an artist’s “1% factor”

  2. Music arrangements, including custom medleys, tracks, band charts, and more

  3. Patter, story development, show arc

  4. Live performance coaching, particularly movement onstage and audience engagement

  5. Staging design including video content, stage props, etc.

We do this both for our own in-house bespoke shows, as well as for existing artists seeking to amplify their show’s impact.

Meet the Team

  • Jason Lyle Black

    Jason Lyle Black

    Founder, Owner, & Artistic Director

  • Kaitlin Proctor

    Agent and Artist Manager

  • Hayley Guest

    Market Research & Venue Outreach