Odysseus Arms has added three artisans to its creative team: art directors Luisa Betancourt and Jarrod Gustin, and copywriter Clémence Pluche.
Betancourt joins Odysseus Arms from Eleven, where she was art director/designer for the past year, and junior designer before that, working with clients including Apple, Oakley, Dignity Health and the 3% Conference. Originally from Venezuela, Betancourt speaks English, Spanish and French. She studied at Miami Dade before earning a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Academy of Art University.
Gustin relocates to San Francisco from Minneapolis, where he was most recently art director for independent agency Solve for nearly two years. During his tenure, Gustin worked with brands including GMC, American Standard and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. He cut his teeth in the ad world at Victors & Spoils after spending time in London working in fashion PR.
Pluche arrives from Eleven, where she was copywriter for the past year and a half, working with clients including Google, Oakley, Columbus Meats, Dignity Health and Julep. Previously, she was art director for Off The Cuff Magazine, Boston University’s fashion and art publication. Pluche is a French national from the Bordeaux region, who earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Boston University.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More