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.
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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!