SixTwentySix has secured Bryan Farhy to rep the creative studio on the West Coast and Moustache’s Jared Shapiro to handle East Coast representation. Both reps will work with SixTwentySix managing director/co-founder Jake Krask and executive producer/co-founder Austin Barbera. Having launched Stink Films in the U.S. with Daniel Bergmann before becoming West Coast head of sales for RSA, Farhy was also part of the launch team that opened B-Reel Films in America as EP/head of new business. Shapiro founded the NYC-based Moustache nearly two decades ago. SixTwentySix joins a Moustache lineup that includes Supply & Demand, Bob Industries and Independent Media. In the Midwest, SixTwentySix continues to be represented by Sharon & Perry. For music videos, the company is repped by LABUDA…..
Alison Simpson will become president and CEO of the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) effective November 28. Simpson has held executive marketing roles and served as president of several marketing agencies. She has also led brand, digital, loyalty, integrated marketing and customer experience teams for brands including Holt Renfrew, Rogers Communications, and TMX Group. She is currently chief marketing officer and head of consumer business at Key, a technology company that has developed an all-digital, on-demand homeownership platform to make home ownership a reality for many. She is a director of the CNIB Foundation (Ontario + Quebec Regions) and serves on the advisory board for the Master of Management Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Program at the Smith School of Business….
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