Dominic Goldman is joining U.K. ad agency Above+Beyond as its executive creative director. He is known for his tenures as a creative partner at BBH London and as ECD at Grey London.
Goldman began his career as a digital creative at Media Arts and went on to create integrated work for agencies in Asia and the US including Ogilvy and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
He joined BBH London in 2007, delivering work such as Barnardo’s “Break the Cycle,” ASOS’ “Urban Tour” and Audi’s “Birth.” In the eight years Goldman was at BBH, the agency won Agency of the Year twice, was Digital Agency of the Year at the Webbys and was the IPA Agency of the Year for Effectiveness.
Goldman was hired by Grey London in 2015 as deputy executive director, and was later promoted to ECD. Creative highlights during his time at Grey included the 2017 Lucozade Sport film that told the life story of Anthony Joshua, the Bose “Get Closer” campaign and the iconic Tate Britain work.
Goldman has been awarded numerous international awards, including 46 Cannes Lions.
At Above+Beyond, Goldman will be part of the management team, reporting to Zaid Al-Zaidy, CEO, and working alongside Tom Bedwell, managing director, and David Frymann, strategy partner.
David Billing, group chief creative officer of parent The Beyond Collective, will be handing over the creative reins of Above+Beyond to Goldman, and will focus on growing opportunities within the wider group.
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