Customer experience agency DEFINITION 6 (D6) has brought Laura Schneider on board as sr. VP, group account director. Schneider is a senior marketing and brand executive with more than 20 years of experience leading business strategies for agencies like Barkley, Leo Burnett, Moroch, and most notably, 15 years overseeing marketing at The Home Depot. Schneider began at The Home Depot in merchandise marketing, where she led retail event and product marketing. Over the next several years, she worked her way up as sr. manager of product and trend insights, to director of customer acquisition for home services, and finally, as the company’s director and lead brand strategist in its enterprise marketing division. Schneider discovered her passion for marketing and advertising at the University of Florida. She landed her first agency job at Texas-based Moroch, where she handled media planning and buying for 20th Century Fox, Midas, and McDonald’s. She soon graduated from media to accounts, overseeing local marketing and advertising for McDonald’s fast-food cooperatives throughout North and South Carolina. She next split her time between Chicago and Atlanta, working with Leo Burnett to help set up regional marketing recruitment for the U.S. Army. Schneider is based in Atlanta. D6 is based in Atlanta and NYC, with satellite offices in L.A. and San Francisco. D6 is behind experiences and campaigns for brands like Nextdoor, LL Flooring, Paramount+, HBO, CBS Sports, and Barnes & Noble College….
“Conclave,” “Nickel Boys” Among Film Finalists For USC Libraries Scripter Awards
The USC Libraries named the finalists for the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which honor the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the writers of the works on which they are based.
The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film
--James Mangold and Jay Cocks for “A Complete Unknown” based on the nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald
--Peter Straughan for “Conclave” based on the novel by Robert Harris
--RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes for “Nickel Boys” based on the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
--Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (screenplay and story) and Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield (story) for “Sing Sing” based on the “Esquire” magazine article “The Sing Sing Follies” by John H. Richardson
--Screenwriter Chris Sanders and novelist Peter Brown for “The Wild Robot”
The finalist writers for episodic series are, in alphabetical order by series
--Richard Gadd for the sixth episode of “Baby Reindeer,” based on his stage play of the same name
--Steven Zaillian for “V Lucio,” the fifth episode of “Ripley,” based on “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith
--Joshua Zetumer for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from “Say Nothing,” based on the nonfiction book “Say by Patrick Radden Keefe
--Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks for “Anjin,” the first episode of “Shōgun,” based on the novel by James Clavell
--Will Smith for the episode “Hello Goodbye,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel... Read More