Production company Rakish has promoted Chiara Useche to head of sales/creative producer, and secured Hereo Mgmt. and Nikki Weiss & Co. to handle West Coast and Midwest representation, respectively. Rakish continues to be repped on the East Coast by Barrie Isaacson Management. Useche, originally from Colombia, has a deep, diverse background in the industry including serving in roles which include advertising executive, EP and graphic designer….
Production house MADRE–headed by co-funder and managing director Jonathon Ker–has secured Anna Rotholz of Anna Rotholz Management and Nathan Skillicorn from Heart, Brains, and Nerve to handle representation, respectively, on the East Coast and in the Midwest….
KFC UK and Ireland has named Monica Pool, former marketing director at Taco Bell UK and Europe, as its new chief marketing officer. Pool will be taking over from Jenny Packwood–KFC’s chief corporate affairs & sustainability officer–who has been interim CMO since the departure of Jack Hinchliffe earlier this year. Pool started her journey with KFC South Africa in 2009, where she was integral in driving step-change advertising through innovative creative work. In 2012, she joined KFC UK and Ireland’s marketing team in innovation, before being promoted to marketing director. Having joined Taco Bell in 2020, Pool has grown the brand health of the business, increasing media and marketing effectiveness to bolster sales, while dealing with a range of complex issues facing the QSR sector. She has also championed the franchisee model, working collaboratively with business owners to help grow and support their businesses and those in developing markets. Pool will rejoin KFC UK and Ireland as CMO in early autumn 2023….
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