Team One, Publicis Groupe’s fully integrated media, digital and communications agency for premium brands, has hired Kathy Hepinstall Parks as executive creative director. In a role specifically designed to focus on elevating the writing across all brands, Hepinstall Parks will apply her skills across all agency clients including Lexus, The Ritz-Carlton and Ste. Michelle Wines. She will report to Team One’s chief creative officer, Chris Graves, and work in partnership with the rest of the creative leadership team.
“Given our unique focus on premium and luxury brands, we recognize the emotional power of language,” said Graves. “Beyond just advertising to people, we’re looking to connect with them, and we think great writing is one of our most powerful tools. We’ve been looking to find someone who could help upgrade our writing overall, as well as influence and grow our younger talent. That person was Kathy.”
Based in Austin, Texas, Hepinstall Parks is a Los Angeles Times bestselling novelist (for “The Absence of Nectar”) and has spent the last few years freelancing for various agencies including Team One. Over the course of her career, she’s also worked at shops including Wieden + Kennedy (Portland, New York and London), 72andSunny, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Saatchi and Saatchi, BBDO, Giant Spoon, TBWAChiatDay, The Martin Agency and Indeed.com. She’s been active across major brand accounts including H&M, Target, Nike, Lexus, Starbucks, American Express, and Uber. Hepinstall Parks has also published eight novels and is co-founder of The Clyde Program, a writing program she started with fellow advertising creative Abigail Hogue.
“Team One’s approach to creative hires is going to be the new model in the next few years. I never received an offer quite like this one–literally created around the way I work most effectively and most happily. And the chance to work for Chris Graves–one of my best friends–was icing on the cake, even though I try to follow a keto diet,” said Hepinstall Parks.
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Retirement For A Film Directed By His Son
Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on "Anemone." The film, Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises.
Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film "Phantom Thread," the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting.
"All my life, I've mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don't know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion," he told W Magazine in 2017. "It was something I had to do."
Since then, his appearances in public have been infrequent. In January, though, he made a surprise appearance at the National Board of Review Awards to present an award to Martin Scorsese, who directed him in "Gangs of New York" (2002) and "The Age of Innocence" (1993).
"Anemone," currently in production, is described as exploring "the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds."
Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a painter who has previously exhibited his works in New York. His first international solo exhibition debuts Tuesday in Hong Kong.
"We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator," said Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus Features. "They have written a truly... Read More