Deutsch LA has hired Colin Drummond as partner and chief strategy officer. He will serve as chief strategist across all of Deutsch LA’s accounts, including Taco Bell, Volkswagen, Target, Dr Pepper and Snapple Group, and will oversee the agency’s planning and strategy group.
Drummond joins Deutsch LA from Ogilvy & Mather West where most recently he served as chief strategy officer. While at Ogilvy West, he oversaw strategic planning on accounts like Cisco, Beringer and Arco, and built the agency’s West Coast-led planning capabilities.
As a founding partner of Deutsch LA, current chief strategic officer, Jeffrey Blish, has been instrumental in the agency’s growth and success over the past 18 years. He will remain a partner and in his new role as executive planning director will continue to bring his deep expertise to agency clients, advising on account strategy, planning and brand-building programs. Blish will take on the added responsibility of leading large-scale agency research projects and client insights generation–a natural pairing with Deutsch LA’s strategic offering.
Prior to Ogilvy West, Drummond spent six years at Crispin Porter + Bogusky–four years as VP, associate director, cognitive and culture radar followed by two years as VP, director of cultural and business insights–running its 30-person planning department and pioneering new methods for generating insights within the agency. Drummond deployed a team of social scientists, account planners, journalists and business strategists to the benefit of clients such as Burger King, MINI, and Domino’s. Earlier in his career, he spent a cumulative 17 years at agencies such as Mullen, AKQA and Scali.
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