Hill Holliday has promoted David Leonardi to chief creative officer of its health care practice, Hill Holliday Health. He will be reporting into Icaro Doria, North American chief creative officer, Hill Holliday. This is one of Doria’s first executive moves, since joining Hill Holliday in January of 2021. Leonardi joined Hill Holliday Health as executive creative director in 2013 with over 15 years of experience on such consumer health brands as LIPITOR®, Prevacid®, SPIRIVA®, and LAP-BAND®.
“Over the past decade, our healthcare expertise has grown quietly yet tremendously, driving results for some of the biggest names in the industry,” said Doria. “David has been a huge part of that growth, I have full faith in his creative vision, his goals for further growth, and I look forward to working with him to create brave, ambitious, and culturally relevant ideas for our health clients going forward.”
Leonardi added, “I’m grateful for the opportunity to work alongside Icaro–an amazing creative leader and person–to help him create the next chapter in Hill Holliday’s storied history. There’s an intangible quality and commitment with everyone here at Hill Holliday Health; our collective passion to help people is real. We use every ounce of that to create work that breaks through, builds client business and helps change—or even save—lives.”
Hill Holliday Health has experienced impressive growth after launching its healthcare practice bringing on four new client companies and seven new brands in CNS, oncology, women’s healthcare, and ophthalmology. Hill Holliday Health’s clients include J&J, Lundbeck, Regeneron, and Intra-Cellular Therapies.
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