Editor Nick Rondeau has come aboard the roster of Work Editorial. Based in the Los Angeles office working alongside partners Stewart Reeves and Neil Smith, Rondeau will be represented globally.
Rondeau had a 10-year stay at Arcade Edit, working across the board on high profile brands Apple, Nike, Beats, Adidas, Chipotle and Porsche with agencies such as Goodby Silverstein & Partners, BBH New York and David&Goliath.
Rondeau is also widely noted for his music video work with prominent artists The Weeknd, Vince Staples, Jay-Z, Rae Sremmurd, Skrillex, Meek Mills, Kanye West and James Vincent McMorrow. Rondeau’s work on “Starboy” for The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk and directed by frequent collaborator Grant Singer of Anonymous Content won Best Video at the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards and has garnered over 1.5 billion views. Working on Jay-Z’s “Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film” with director Mark Romanek also received a nomination for Best Music Video at the 56th Grammy Awards. Rondeau’s passion also extends itself to composing ambitious live visuals for numerous artists on tour.
Marlo Baird, EP at Work Editorial, Los Angeles, said, “Nick wears his commitment to the craft and his work ethic on his sleeve and it shows. Bold, rhythmic and confident, the way he embraces sound is singular; it almost feels like jazz. Putting the director’s vision first whilst completely supporting the agency–all these qualities make Nick a perfect fit on our roster.”
Rondeau reflects on the path that led him to this point as a fresh intern compiling reels for broadcast producers at Goodby Silverstein & Partners. It was a fast track education into the most clever campaigns of the day and most prolific directors.
“A boutique, London based company named Work Editorial continuously cropped up. I honestly fell in love with (editors) Bill Smedley, Neil Smith and Rich Orrick back then, stacking reels in that basement. It’s so crazy to me that I am working with them now.”
Orrick, Smedley, Smith and managing director Jane Dilworth are the original founding partners of Work Editorial which opened in London and 2006, and then extended its reach to the U.S. with offices in New York and L.A.
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