Independent creative studio Los York has hired Nicole Taylor as VP of business development, a new position. She reports directly to Los York founder and director Seth Epstein. Previously, Taylor was global lead, brand partnerships for Uber Technologies at Snapchat, where she negotiated and managed the global joint business plan between Snap Inc and Uber, one of its prominent advertisers. Taylor joined Snapchat in 2016 as the company’s first account executive at its shop in San Francisco and became one of the tech giant’s top sales people under their brand partnerships practice. She brings to Los York an accomplished resume in social media, client services and team leadership….
Fancy House of Visual Effects, a sister company of Goldcrest Post, has hired Amy Jones as executive producer/head of sales. Jones’ role is to lead sales and business development and facilitate collaboration between the studio’s creative team and clients. Her background includes sales and marketing roles at visual effects studios, advertising agencies and commercial production companies. Most recently, she served as director of business development at New York creative production studio Taylor James Ltd where her focus was on advertising and digital content for agencies and brands. Prior to that she was head of sales at Framestore Pictures….
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