My name is Jimmy Featherstone Marcheso and I’m a sometimes opera director turned Ad wizard. I’m a conceptual ART DIRECTOR — full of iridescent optimism. And no matter the medium, I want to fill the world with beauty. My strengths are storytelling through performance art, video, motion graphics, photography and type.  I use my life in the arts to bridge the gap between technology and culture.

My background is in opera as a character performer (your village idiots, clowns, perverts) and then later as a freelance stage director and Assistant Director at San Francisco Opera. Sometimes that makes me feel like a space alien in Adland.

Peep THE GOODS… And take me to your leader.

EXPERIENCE

Associate Art Director @ Critical Mass, 2023 - Present

Art Direction Intern @ R/GA, 2022

Art Direction Intern @ JOAN , 2022

Design Intern @ Beekman Social, 2021

Staging Staff @ SF Opera, 2013 - 2023
Assistant Director, Assistant Stage Manager

M.Ad School SF, Portfolio Program in Art Direction; 2022

SF Conservatory of Music, Bachelor of Music in Voice; 2009

EDUCATION

AWARDS

One Club Portfolio Night, San Francisco All Star Winner; 2023

Cannes Future Lions, Winner; 2022

One Club for Creativity, Shortlist; 2022

World’s Best Dad!