Jeremy Craigen has been named global CCO of INNOCEAN Worldwide, a new position at the agency. He will be based in the U.K. and his appointment is effective on June 22. Prior to joining INNOCEAN, Craigen served as global executive creative director at DDB, primarily focusing on the Volkswagen account. He was also a global executive committee member and the chair of DDB’s European creative council. Craigen began his tour at DDB in 1990 as a junior creative director and has also worked with Ted Bates and BNP BBD Needham. At INNOCEAN Craigen will work closely with creative advisor Bob Isherwood who joined the agency in 2013. Craigen will oversee the executive creative directors in INNOCEAN’s offices in the U.S., Asia, and Europe….
Bicoastal design and animation company ODD (Office of Development & Design) has signed creative director team Territory, comprised of David Sheldon-Hicks and Nick Glover. The pair has expertise that spans a broad range of media, industries and brands. They have worked with global agencies such as Grey, Mother, VCCP, Saatchi & Saatchi, adam&eveDDB and JWT. Recent commercial work includes digital films for Virgin Atlantic showcasing its Boeing 787 Dreamliner plus digital content for the McLaren’s Formula 1 Team. Territory Studio also has to its credit effects work on feature films including Prometheus, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ex Machina, Jupiter Ascending and Avengers: The Age of Ultron. Territory has signed on to create effects for the upcoming releases for Agent 47 (Alexander Back), The Martian (Ridley Scott) & Mission Impossible 5 (Christopher McQuarrie) later this year. ODD is headed by executive creative director Gary Breslin, and overseen by EPs Tim Case and Charles Salice….
Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners (RTO+P) has hired Hilary Craven as chief marketing officer. In this newly created position, Craven will focus on broadening the agency’s offerings, driving it into new sectors, and weaving her strong entertainment relationships into the agency model. She will report to Steve Red, president and chief creative officer of RTO+P. In addition to working across the agency’s roster of clients, Craven is also charged with developing overarching strategies for the RTO+P brand including events, branded entertainment, partnerships, products and IP. Craven will be based in the agency’s Los Angeles office with frequent trips to RTO+P’s Philadelphia headquarters. Prior to joining RTO+P, Craven was head of experiential and head of earned media at LA-based 72andSunny, during which time she created communications and experiential strategies for global brands including Activision, Anheuser Busch, Google, PacSun, Samsung, Smirnoff, Sonos, Target, Tillamook and Truth. She was also responsible for launching and managing the agency’s music discovery platform, as well as creating the agency’s event series. Before that, Craven was founder and principal of The Maven Projects, a communications and marketing agency focused on music, action sports and fashion….
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