Erin Wahed has joined SMUGGLER as director of sales and management on the East Coast, working alongside Trace Henderson. Wahed will also serve in this role for SMUGGLER’S sister company, DIVISION7. She brings broad-based experience to SMUGGLER and DIVISION7. Wahed worked at fashion photography agency Management + Artists producing print campaigns for noted photographers. She continued her career as a project manager at independent design consultancy Pentagram. She later joined RepresentationCo as a talent agent, representing the company’s roster of production companies, editing houses, and experiential/immersive artists, connecting them with leading advertising agencies. Wahed then launched Favorite Child under RepresentationCo, a curated roster to speak to the ongoing creative evolution in the advertising industry….
Picture North, which provides ideation, production and postproduction solutions for advertising agencies, record labels and direct clients, has signed indie firm DeVine Reps to handle exclusive representation on the West Coast……
Four DPs have joined Innovative Artists for narrative and commercial representation: Robert E. Arnold, Eric Branco, Thomas Scott Stanton, and Todd Dos Reis. The latter’s projects include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Longmire and Entourage. Arnold has worked with such brands as adidas and Dodge. Branco served as cinematographer on Clemency, this year’s Grand Prize Jury winner at the Sundance Film Festival. And Stanton has shot for brands including Carthartt, Landrover, the NFL and Disney…….
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