Brandon Solis has joined Grey as executive director of social & connections, a new position. He will report to John Patroulis, worldwide chief creative officer, and be based at Grey New York’s flagship headquarters.
Solis will play an integral role at Grey strategically, creatively and operationally in this newly-established position. He will oversee the creation of social media, digital content, and influencer marketing. In addition, he will lend his expertise to the agency’s global network in the development of future-facing platforms and leadership in the discipline.
“Brandon has helped transform how ideas come to life–and how marketers communicate–by placing social and comms planning at the heart of a creative and strategic approach that meshes perfectly with ours,” Patroulis said. “We’re excited to have him join as we continue to expand the horizons of the work that resonates in culture to grow our clients’ business.”
Solis has brought his expertise, a singular blend of culture, channel, and creative strategy to both global and innovation agencies across the world. Most recently, he worked at Eleven, Inc., a San Francisco-based integrated agency. Earlier at R/GA New York, he contributed to the success of such clients as Verizon, Samsung, Uber and Nike building bridges to platforms like TikTok, Twitch, Google and Facebook, elevating their social presence.
Along the way, Solis served as global strategy director for L’Oréal Paris while at McCann Worldgroup, leading integrated campaigns in over 20 countries. He gained experience at BBH, Code and Theory, and Barton F. Graf in New York.
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