Saul Marshall Dennis
(Saulie to my friends.)
Freelance Writer/Creative Director/Essayist/Screenwriter (aspiring)
WORK EXPERIENCE
SKILLS (broadly speaking)
Conceptual thinking, compelling writing, engaging speaking, observing, listening, damn good cook, fashion sense.
SKILLS (more focused)
Advertising Copywriting: TV, Print, Digital, Social, Collateral, Direct Marketing.
AGENCIES, STAFF
Sullivan NYC — Creative Director
Lead numerous creative and strategic engagements.
Merkley & Partners NYC — Copy Director/ACD
Co-founded and lead award-winning Mercedes-Benz collateral division.
Siegel & Gale NYC — VP/Creative Director
Grew advertising practice from $600K to $50M in annualized billings.
MessnerVetereBergerMcNameeSchmetterer NYC— Copy Writer
Learned all I could from Tom Messner.
AGENCIES, FREELANCE
CL&S (digital)
DaggerwingHealth
Desantis Briendel
FutureBrand
Grey
GSW (health)
Hall & Partners (health)
Hogarth
HAVAS
KirshenbaumBondSenecal+Partners
Publicis
o2kl
Omnicom Health
Siegel+Gale
SS&K
Starfish
Sullivan
TAXI
The Perception
Underline Communications
Weber Shandwick
Weymouth Design
Strategic Branding: Interviewing/Research, Brand Positioning/Promise, Brand Manifesto, Brand Pillars/Values, Brand Tone of Voice.
Screenwriting: Readers say they can truly see the action and emotion. (Makes sense, since all I’m really doing is taking dictation from the movie playing in my head.)
DEFINING MOMENTS
Being born to the people who were my parents.
Passing on the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University to head west.
Stumbling upon the amazing combination of Parris Island, the Harvard Business School and the Iowa Writers’ Project that was MessnerVetereBergerCareySchmetterer.
Not being terrified of just how amazing my wife is.