Digital agency Razorfish has made two key hires for its production team in Chicago, securing Rob Jaeger and Katie Matson-Walker as production directors. Jaeger will manage content production across broadcast, web, cinema and mobile. Matson-Walker’s focus will be on transmedia brand storytelling and content production.
Jaeger was most recently VP, lead producer at Cramer-Krasselt where he managed and produced campaigns for Corona, Porsche, Crocs and Edward Jones Financials, among others. Prior to his tenure at Cramer-Krasselt, Jaeger was executive producer at Element 79 Partners and broadcast producer at DDB Chicago, where he produced content for Bud Light, Gatorade, Propel and Quaker Foods.
Meanwhile Walker was previously executive producer at digital and social media agency Mekanism, where she built the company’s satellite office in New York. Additional experience includes eight years as a producer with Believe Media. Over her career, Walker has produced commercials, web films, documentaries, music videos and social media campaigns for top global brands Stella Artois, Mac Cosmetics, Samsung, GE and ESPN, among others.
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