The Directors Network (TDN), a boutique talent agency representing freelance commercial directors and professionals, has signed Sam Washington, an award-winning director whose performance-driven work has earned him global recognition. Washington has won such prestigious distinctions as inclusion in the BAFTA Newcomers roster as well as advertising’s marquee honor, the Cannes Lion. Between commercials for clients such as Netflix, VISA, Nintendo, Keurig, and HBO, Washington turns his attention to longer narratives and has a catalog of short films that have won multiple awards at film festivals around the world. Originally from the U.K., he is now based in Los Angeles….
Backyard Productions has connected with Rogue Rep to handle representation in the West Coast and Texas markets. Rogue Rep is helmed by Dave Campbell, formerly with Wieden+Kennedy, Saatchi & Saatchi New York, FCB/SF, as well as Microsoft and Xbox marketing. Campbell and his Rogue Rep associate Mark Saperstein will handle representation on the West Coast and in Texas for Backyard’s roster of directors….
Ricardo Honegger, who for the last three years was managing director of DAVID Miami, has been promoted to chief growth officer of DAVID in the U.S. Honegger will focus on new business in the U.S. market, including partnerships and opportunities with Ogilvy and WPP. Since January 2020, he has helped DAVID Miami achieve +35% YoY business growth….
Experience design company Imagination has hired Justine Carr as its new head of growth in Australia. Joining from her role as APAC business director for George P Johnson, Carr will spearhead new business planning, development and execution, driving sustained new client engagement and growth. Her appointment follows a string of recent hires on Imagination’s global growth team including Stephanie Balme, U.K. business development director, and Chad Hines, U.S. director of business development. In her new role, Carr will be responsible for Imagination’s wider strategic goal of building its brand reputation and driving business growth by delivering world-class immersive and integrated experiences. This includes experience design consultancy, live events, brand destinations and digital content. She will work alongside Kate Daly, creative service director….
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