Customer experience agency Definition 6 has brought Crystal Hall aboard as SVP/creative director. She brings years of experience in the media and entertainment industry spanning branding, advertising, and marketing. Hall has driven development for more than a dozen rebrands, digital experiences, and cable channel relaunches, including Showtime, FX, The Movie Channel, Smithsonian Channel, and truTV.
Prior to joining Definition 6, Hall founded and ran two creative agencies. Most recently, she was chief creative officer of Specter Hall, where she worked on social, digital, and brand initiatives for Audible and launched the branding and creative strategy for multiple tech start-ups, including destination-based AR app District-1. Prior to that, she was co-founder/executive creative director of Spark+Sizzle, most notably producing an award-winning interactive digital campaign for American Horror Story with FX.
Before that, Hall was at Showtime Networks for more than 15 years with the last 10 in the role of VP/creative director of network branding and design. There, she led the Showtime brand transition into the digital environment and executed thousands of projects, including 360º marketing campaigns, social content, product development, network rebrands, and show packaging. During her tenure, Hall led six Showtime network rebrands, including the celebrated “Brace Yourself” integrated brand marketing campaign. Of the many series launches she worked on, one of her favorites is the Billions launch campaign, which involved a takeover of the Oculus in Lower Manhattan with 50 screens of all shapes and sizes, including two massive 20 X 30-foot displays.
Austin Stowell Gets Emotional About Portraying Stoic Jethro Gibbs In “NCIS: Origins”
Once again, Austin Stowell is having the best day ever — all thanks to him winning the role of legendary TV character Leroy Jethro Gibbs in "NCIS: Origins."
"Since I got this job, it has just been day after day after day of the greatest day of my life," says Stowell, smiling.
The actor has his shoulders back and chest up to portray the ex-Marine-turned-naval investigator, set 25 years before audiences first met "NCIS" star Mark Harmon.
Harmon and his son Sean are behind the idea of this origin story of the special agent, who was on-screen for 19 seasons from 2003 to 2021, solving crimes for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Virginia.
Stowell says he'll be doing his best to live up to the role Harmon made famous and give viewers a new perspective on "how the hero was born."
Harmon, who narrates and pops up occasionally in the show, has been very supportive of Stowell, making himself available to chat about life, visiting the set and even texting (something technophobic Gibbs would never).
"Mark and I talk a lot about what it means to be the leader of a team, about what it means to be a leader of this set and crew," he says. "Those conversations have been invaluable to me because I don't know what it's like. I've never been No. 1 on a TV show before."
The lessons he's learned: be on time, be kind, respectful and professional.
He's also studied up on the "NCIS" universe, something he knew about but wasn't yet a super fan.
In a pop quiz Stowell correctly names all the franchise's four spin-off shows and only stumbles when it comes to rule three of Gibbs' famous guidelines: "Never believe what you are told."
(He keeps the full list to read from time to time.)
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