Omelet, an L.A.-based branding, marketing and entertainment company, has added Katrin Tenhaaf and Josie Brown to its sr. leadership team. Tenhaaf, who most recently served as global group account director at TBWAChiatDay, is now partner and head of client services. Meanwhile Brown has been promoted from sr. account director to partner and head of business development at Omelet.
Tenhaaf has more than 15 years of account and client leadership expertise at global agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather London and Amsterdam, BBDO, 180LA and TBWAChiatDay. Her work has spanned 60-plus countries and includes brands like Adidas, Dove, Heineken, ING, Johnnie Walker, Sony and Visa. At Omelet, Tenhaaf provides account leadership for clients such as Microsoft, AT&T and Coca-Cola, driving the agency’s organic growth and expansion. Since joining, Tenhaaf has led several successful client projects, including Microsoft’s Work Wonders Project—a documentary-style series that features Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun and School in the Cloud’s Sugata Mitra on a collaborative journey to revolutionize education.
Brown has produced work in more than 30 markets, with brands including L’Oreal Paris, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Colgate, Sony Ericsson, Adidas, T-Mobile, and Revlon. As Omelet’s head of business development, Brown is now responsible for growing the company’s client roster.
Since joining, Brown has worked on Moët & Chandon’s first global spot which was created in conjunction with director Samuel Bayer, AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign which encourages teens to stop texting and driving, and Betsy’s Best, a new line of gourmet and all-natural nut and seed butters that mark the company’s first co-owned brand, developed under Omelet Brands.
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