Colin Selikow, Stephen De Wolf and Selma Ahmed Join Refreshed The Monthly Cut Creative Council

​The Monthly Cut announces the latest refresh of its quarterly creative council, featuring leaders from across the brand, agency and craft communities.

Launched this year, the creative excellence initiative from Little Black Book and The Immortal Awards sees a curated reel of the best in global commercial creativity - curated by the Creative Council - delivered directly to LBB’s Standard and Premium members every month.

The Monthly Cut, now into its eighth month, has spawned a global event series with multiple events happening worldwide each month, allowing the creative community to come together and celebrate the best new work. Seven editions have been held in London, two in Dublin, two in Sydney and one in New York, with more planned in Melbourne, Bristol, Berlin and beyond in the future.

Selecting the work that makes ‘the Cut’ will be a rotating quarterly council of industry experts, alongside Little Black Book’s managing editors Addison Capper (Americas), Alex Reeves (EMEA), Brittney Rigby (AUNZ) and Laura Swinton (Global), CEO Matt Cooper, and head of creative excellence Paul Monan.

The creative council - curating The Monthly Cut 007, 008 and 009 - includes:

• ​Selma Ahmed, ECD, DAVID London​
• ​Brett Colliver, CCO, Dentsu​
• ​Tracey Cooper, global managing partner / EP , Riff Raff
  
• ​Vini Dalvi, CCO, Publicis Canada
  
• ​Stephen de Wolf, CCO, Clemenger BBDO
  
• ​Rob Doubal, CCO, M+C Saatchi
  
• ​Carol Dunn, managing director, Barking Owl
  
• ​Lisa Fedyszyn, CCO, Special NZ
  
• Barry Greaves, partner and ECD, Heckler Shanghai
  
• ​Charles Howell, president of global advertising and content, Framestore
  
• ​Anna Jackson, head of brand, Westpac
  
• ​Zane Radcliffe, ECD, McCann Bristol​
  
• ​Luis Gabriel Ramirez, CCO, Whirlpool
  
• ​Nicky Russell, co-founder, WDC
  
• ​Christian ‘Kidde’ Schuck, CCO, M+C Saatchi Europe​
  
• ​Colin Selikow, CCO, DDB Chicago​
  
• ​Ryan Smith, executive producer, Whitehouse Post​
  
• ​Will Studd, animation director, Aardman​
  
• ​Simona Suman, CCO, VML Germany​
  
• ​Sam Sutchbury, founder and creative director, Motion Sickness
  
• ​Christopher Szillat, co-founder, co-ceo, Hello Robin
  
• ​Lolly Thomson, CCO, M+C Saatchi
  
• ​Marielle Wilsdorf, partner and managing director, Scholz & Friends​

The creative council will continue to rotate on a quarterly basis, with each group contributing to the curation of The Monthly Cut for three consecutive months. The third council will curate work that launches or first airs in October, November and December 2025.

Paul Monan, head of creative excellence at Little Black Book, says, “The Monthly Cut continues to go from strength to strength, inspiring and educating creative teams all over the world with the best new commercial creativity. Of course, this wouldn’t be possible without the time and effort of our incredible Creative Council, who work with us every month to identify great work and set the creative agenda. There’s a real sense of community and continuity within our group, many of which are staying on for a second or third term, which allows us to consistently benchmark work to the highest of standards.”

The Monthly Cut reel is delivered directly to Little Black Book members on the Standard or Premium tiers at the start of each month. If you are a Little Black Book member on the Basic tier then you will need to upgrade your membership to receive The Monthly Cut.

If you’re interested in finding out more or have any questions, please contact the team at themonthlycut@lbbonline.com​