Boutique bicoastal production company division7–headed by co-managing directors Kamila Prokop and David Richards–has secured indie firm Champion for talent representation on the East Coast. Under the aegis of sales vets J. Patrick McElroy, Joanna Margilaj and Julie Margilaj Knips, Champion has a roster which includes not only division7 but also Drool, Florence, INSTITUTE, Landia, Lost Planet, Squeak E. Clean Studios and Trevor….
Great Guns USA has formed a partnership with THICK and THIN–the indie firm founded by Bobby Rowe and Sabrina Mehar–for representation services across the East Coast. Headed by managing director and executive producer Oliver Fuselier, Great Guns USA becomes the latest addition to THICK and THIN’s eclectic roster….
Los Angeles-based creative studio Los York has expanded its reach by hiring Chicago-based directorial and creative representation firm SG+Partners to handle the Midwest. Headed by founder Sarah Gitersonke, SG+Partners joins the Los York sales team along with Simpatico for West and East Coast regions, and Momentum’s Bettina Abascal for the multicultural market….
The One Club for Creativity has hired Molly Crossin as chief growth officer. She will lead development of strategic, cross-platform partnerships with agencies and brands, connecting them with the club’s numerous DEI, gender equality, education, and creative development programs around the world that are most relevant to their business. Crossin is a strategic marketer, brand builder, and connector with experience on both the agency and brand sides. She joins The One Club from The New York Times, where she served as acting marketing director. Her experience also includes more than three years at Madwell, serving as an agency account director handling client service and business development, two years as marketing manager at NASDAQ, and three years running Industry Standard, her own women’s apparel line….
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