Simon Vicars, Keka Morelle and Dave Wigglesworth Join The Monthly Cut Creative Council
The Monthly Cut has begun the new year by unveiling a refreshed quarterly Creative Council, featuring leaders from across the brand, agency and craft communities.
Launched last year, the creative excellence initiative from Little Black Book sees a curated reel of the best in global commercial creativity - selected by the Creative Council - delivered directly to LBB members every month.
Now into its tenth month, The Monthly Cut, proudly supported by Jukin Licensing, Shutterstock Studios, Telstra and Cape.io 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. Showcase events, free for guests to attend, have been held in London, Dublin, Sydney, New York, Bristol and Melbourne with many more planned for 2026.
Selecting the work that makes ‘the Cut’ is a quarterly rotating council of industry experts, alongside Little Black Book’s managing editors Addison Capper, Alex Reeves, Brittney Rigby, Laura Swinton, and Zhenya Tsenzharyk, CEO Matt Cooper, and head of creative excellence Paul Monan.
The creative council - curating The Monthly Cut 010, 011 and 012 - includes:
- Jenni Barry Duke, founder, Rubberduck
- Chris Birch, CCO, VCCP London
- Jeannette Bohné, CCO, Serviceplan Germany
- Alexis Bronstorph, CCO, No Fixed Address
- Leo Chiesi, CCO, McCann Worldgroup Santiago
- Tracey Cooper, global managing partner / EP , Riff Raff
- Stephen de Wolf, CCO, Clemenger BBDO
- Rob Doubal, CCO, M+C Saatchi
- Carol Dunn, managing director, Barking Owl
- Juliane Ellrich, partner and executive producer, Zauberberg Productions
- Thais Frazao, CSO, Ogilvy LATAM
- Peter Grasse, founder, Mr+Positive
- Barry Greaves, partner and ECD, Heckler
- Joel Holtby, founder and CCO, Courage
- Barbara Humphries, CCO, Droga5 Sydney
- Anna Jackson, head of brand, Westpac
- Valerie Madon, CCO, McCann Singapore
- Shane Martin, founder, Boomtown Productions
- Keka Morelle, CCO, Ogilvy LATAM
- Jonny Parker, CCO, VCCP London
- Cheryl Payne, head of production, Freefolk
- Ryan Reed, CCO, M&C Saatchi Group Middle East
- Emma Robbins, CCO, M&C Saatchi Melbourne
- Ger Roe, board director, Publicis Dublin
- Denise Rosetto, partner and CCO, Broken Heart Love Affair
- Christian ‘Kidde’ Schuck, CCO, M&C Saatchi Europe
- Ryan Smith, executive producer, Whitehouse Post
- Niall Staines, creative director, TBWA\Dublin
- Sam Sutchbury, founder and creative director, Motion Sickness
- Lolly Thomson, CCO, M+C Saatchi
- Ramona Todoca, creative director, W+K Amsterdam
- Simon Vicars, CCO, Colenso BBDO
- Leisa Wall, CCO, FCB New Zealand
- Dave Wigglesworth, ECD, 4creative
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 fourth council will curate work that launches or first airs in January, February and March 2026.
Paul Monan, head of creative excellence at Little Black Book, says, “We’re excited to bring together another phenomenally smart and talented creative council, packed full of creative leaders all over the world. We have input and insight from brand, agency and craft communities in every region which makes the Cut a properly global reflection of the best our industry has to offer right now. Launching and growing the initiative in 2025 was a lot of fun and this year things are going to step to another level. With the support of a number of global partners we’re going to ramp up the event series and make the reel even more accessible to our community.”
As of February 1st The Monthly Cut reel, with the support of its partners, is now free-to-view and download by all Little Black Book members.
If you’re interested in finding out more or have any questions, please contact the team at themonthlycut@lbbonline.com
