McCann New York has expanded its creative leadership with the promotions of Susan Young and Daniela Vojta to executive creative directors.
Young and Vojta were hired as group creative directors in 2013 by Joyce King Thomas, chairman and chief creative officer, McCann XBC, the agency’s unit dedicated to the MasterCard business.
Young and Vojta’s recent “Make What’s Next” campaign for Microsoft challenged stereotypes related to gender in the fields of technology and science and won an award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The creatives also helped launch Microsoft Windows 10 and a patent program for young women.
Prior to McCann, Young was a creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi and a copywriter at KBS+P and Wieden + Kennedy.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vojta previously served as integrated creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, associate creative director at KBS+P and sr. art director at Publicis.
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More