Young & Laramore has announced new leadership at its EchoPoint Media, as Shannon Quinn and Lindsey Warner will both be taking on the titles of VP, media director. Together, they will lead EchoPoint into its third decade, following the retirement of Terri Reilly, the media icon who has led Y&L’s media planning and buying company since its inception 21 years ago.
Quinn is an Indiana University graduate in telecommunications who began her media career in Chicago, but returned to Indianapolis to join EchoPoint Media during its early years in 1999. Quinn quickly grew into leadership roles at EPM due to her media savvy and passion for collaboration with both clients and media partners alike. Throughout her career, she’s led the media planning and buying for a wide variety of brands including Speedway convenience stores, IU Health, Goodwill retail stores and Steak n Shake restaurants.
Warner is a graduate from the University of Kansas in journalism and strategic communications. Warner’s media career has taken her all over the country, including tours in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Chicago, driving the digital media strategy for brands like Tootsie Roll, MGM Resorts and Jimmy Johns. Warner joined EchoPoint Media to build its digital media practice and has done just that as the digital director, while leading the media strategy for brands like Brizo, Trane, Key Hero and IU Online.
Tom Denari will be taking on the dual role as president of Young & Laramore and EchoPoint Media, to help support Quinn and Warner as they continue to nurture and grow EchoPoint for the benefit of its clients.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More