Partners with Victoria Guenier and Adam Lawson in comedy-centric production company
Director Pete Marquis has opened Good Behavior, a comedy-focused production company in which heโs partnered with executive producer Victoria Guenier and producer Adam Lawson.
The trio worked on some 50-plus productions since meeting three years ago at Strike Anywhere, a production house where Marquis was on the directorial roster, Guenier was on staff as EP and Lawson freelance produced.
Marquis, Guenier and Lawson continued collaborating after departing Strike Anywhere. Starting this past June, they picked up five jobs which have since been wrapped. They have five more projects that have been awarded to them, two of which are in post. Their latest campaigns were for Fruit by the Foot, Doordash and White Claw. Good Behavior officially launched today (Sept. 9). Appropriately enough, Marquis has a humorous explanation for the launch date and company moniker. When he was in daycare, a stern German woman looked after him. As a result, one of the first phrases he ever learned was, โNein. Nein.โ A lifetime of being told, โnein nein,โ has prepared him to be on good behavior, and to formally open the doors of Good Behavior on 9/9.
Marquis draws on his writing abilities and knack for collaboration with actors and creatives, to mine every scene for truth and humor, and consistently create work that hits a nerve with the zeitgeist. โIโve been fortunate enough to be making the kind of work I like seeing out in the world. And doing it with the same people I love, admire and enjoy working with, Adam and Victoria. We always challenge ourselves to push the work and stretch the budgets, while keeping the set running smooth and the experience a joy for everyone. I hope to one day retire alongside those two. And hopefully that dayโs not tomorrow.โ
Prior to Strike Anywhere, Guenier served on the agency side of the business at Omelet, Ogilvy and Deutsch LA. For the latter shop, she served as director of broadcast and content production. At her new roost, Guenier assumes the informal company mantle of Ms. Behavior.
Lawson has done everything from AD-ing an Academy Award-winning film to show running TV to producing the CyberPunk 2077 promo with Keanu Reeves. Lawson bids. He produces. He oversees post. His love for comic books has no bounds–he even created one with Wesley Snipes called The Exiled.
โI couldnโt be happier working alongside Adam and Pete,โ said Guenier. โThey are two of the nicest and most hardworking people Iโve met and to see our company work on some of the top U.S. brands is a joy.โ
โIโve taken many great adventures in entertainment and advertising, but this one promises to be the best one yet,โ said Lawson.
On Good Behavior, Marquis said, โWeโre capable of bad, bad things. But we try to do it in a way thatโs nice and pleasant for everyone. My dream is for our shop to be a magnet for wickedly funny work, and kind and motivated folks who put their napkins on their laps, keep their elbows off the table, and happen to be incredibly talented.โ
Good Behavior is repped on the East Coast by Milktoast, in the Midwest by Sharon and Perry, and on the West Coast by Stephanie Stephens.
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