Mark Taylor will join Energy BBDO as chief creative officer effective April 7. He has served in senior creative leadership roles at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, GSD&M, and Fallon Minneapolis.
Tonise Paul, Energy BBDO president and CEO, related, “When you look at Mark’s work, you will see a history of marketing innovation. With the challenge of increasingly parity products and the opportunity afforded by the constant emergence of new technologies, this is how brands today win. Mark’s work is a collection of big, original ideas that have solved big business challenges. You will recognize it because it was often the first time you saw it done, starting with [Burger King’s] Subservient Chicken.”
For more than 15 years, Taylor has been delivering award-winning and business-building work for his clients, beginning as an art director at FCB in Los Angeles and continuing through leadership roles at Crispin Porter+Bogusky (VP/executive creative director), Fallon Minneapolis (co-creative director) and GSD&M in Austin, TX (sr. VP/executive creative director). His experiences almost literally range from A to Z, from the Air Force to Windows Phone, American Express, Burger King, Coke Zero, Microsoft, MINI, Southwest Airlines and more. He’s won 20 Cannes Lions including multiple Grand Prix awards for his work for American Express “Small Business Saturday” and Ikea as well as a Titanium Grand Prix for Burger King and a Cannes Lion for Effectiveness. He’s also won One Show and D&AD Pencils, Clios, ANDYs, MIXX Awards and his work has been featured more than two dozen times in Communications Arts.
Until Taylor assumes his new role in April, Energy BBDO will continue to be led by its group of sr. creative directors.
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