Angela Kosniewski hired as agency's head of accounts
180 NY has hired Alex Campbell as head of production. Also coming aboard the agency is Angela Kosniewski as head of accounts. The two additions follow the recent appointment of Jason Chebib as head of strategy and are part of a larger effort to fill out an experienced leadership team for the newly established New York branch of the global 180 agency.
Both Campbell and Kosniewski will report to 180 NY president Evan Weissbrot, who is overseeing the buildout of the New York office, including the integration of social consultancy Brand Intelligence Operating System across the 180 network, and delivering on the agency’s mandate to build modern brands that are famous, human and seamless.
Campbell joins 180 NY from his previous role as associate director of interactive production at TBWAChiatDay, where he produced work for adidas’s Billie Jean King campaign and Tic Tac’s “Chew and Play” digital campaign. His work has earned him recognition with CLIO Awards, The One Show, ANDY Awards, D&AD Awards and Cannes Lions. Campbell has also held positions at BIOS (the social consultancy that recently integrated with 180) and The Mill.
Formerly, VP of new business development at Johnnie Studio, Kosniewski will play a central role in strengthening existing client engagements and building lasting new relationships. She has a proven track-record of growing new business and successfully leading growth development for global brands including Target, Nescafe, iHeartRadio, Schick, Hawaiian Tropic, Playtex and E*TRADE. Kosniewski, who has been recognized with an Effie and Cannes Gold Lion, has held several senior positions throughout her career, including founder and CEO of Elle Collective, SVP and head of brand management at MullenLowe Group, and Droga5 executive group director, as well as roles at TBWAChiatDay and Attik.
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