Veteran colorist Kevin Michael Kirwan (American Crime Story, American Horror Story) has joined Periscope Post & Audio. Kirwan brings more than 20 years of experience as a sr. colorist and credits on more than 40 television series. At Periscope, he will perform final color out of an all-new color grading suite in Periscope’s facility in Hollywood, which launched earlier this year.
“Kevin is among the most accomplished colorists in television; a true master of his craft,” said Periscope Post & Audio general manager Ben Benedetti. “He has worked with the top showrunners, directors and DPs in Hollywood and helped set the look for some of the most iconic shows of recent years.”
Kirwan arrives from Encore, Hollywood, where he worked on scores of popular one-hour dramas. He has provided final color for numerous series for producer Ryan Murphy, which, along with American Horror Story and American Crime Story, include Scream Queens, Glee and Nip/Tuck. Kirwan worked with producer David E. Kelley on Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, Snoops and Picket Fences. Other notable work includes Drop Dead Diva (producer Josh Berman), The Closer (producer Michael M. Robin), 24: Live Another Day (producers Howard Gordan, Brian Grazer, Kiefer Sutherland, et al) and Raising Hope (producer Gregory Thomas Garcia). Kirwan also has extensive experience in television animation, including nearly 250 episodes of the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants.
Kirwan said he was attracted to Periscope by the opportunity to help build a facility from the ground up. “The environment is just what I was looking for,” he said. “When I met with Ben and (executive sales manager) Rich Ellis, I knew this was home.”
Periscope Post & Audio, a full-service postproduction company, maintains facilities in Chicago’s Cinespace, and Hollywood.
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