Deutsch LA has hired Matt O’Rourke, best known for his off-kilter Old Spice work at Wieden+Kennedy, as executive creative director.
O’Rourke will co-lead all digital efforts at Deutsch LA with Jerome Austria, who recently rejoined the agency. O’Rourke’s work includes such buzzed-about work as Old Spice Muscle Music, Internetervention, and Wolfdog, and the Oreo Separator. “Matt brings us an insane level of creativity. His reputation and track record of creating some of the most awarded work on the planet makes him the perfect candidate for Deutsch LA,” Pete said Deutsch chief creative officer Pete Favat.
In addition to Old Spice, O’Rourke served as creative director on the Levi’s, Sony, Powerade and Oreo brands at Wieden+Kennedy. Prior to joining W+K in 2011, he worked as an executive creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where he led creative efforts on Burger King, Jell-O, and Kraft Mac and Cheese.
His career as a creative director began at McCann Erickson in New York, where he built and led that agency’s digital creative capabilities, and was responsible for work across the agency’s entire roster.
Some of O’Rourke’s creative career highlights include multiple Super Bowl commercials and repeated recognition by top award shows, including Cannes, Clios, and the One Show.
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