User:Paul R Lepelletier

PAUL LEPELLETIER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR Paul began his career in comics as an artist for comic characters, which included Popeye and Batman. He then switched to advertising while at New York's School of Visual Arts working for Ralph Nader's public interest groups and ABC News. As a teenager, Paul was the youngest winner of a Peabody award for an Anti-Drug drama series that he co-wrote and acted in. He appeared on "What's My Line?" and in the documentary "The Kings of Flatbush". While at N.Y.'s School of Visual Arts, Paul created a TV spot selling himself, based on a parody of Tom Snyder's NBC show "Tomorrow". Armed with quick one liners, Paul brazenly sent the storyboard to Dan Ackroyd while Dan was performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Dan originally agreed to do it but at the last minute canceled due to a schedule conflict (Steven Spielberg's 1941). Still wanting to do his spot without Dan, Paul searched and found future Saturday Night Live star Joe Piscopo for the role. "He didn't say much tonight," Joe said (portraying Tom Snyder in the TV spot), "but Paul's work speaks for itself". When the spot was completed the first agency that saw it hired Paul within 25 minutes. Since then, Paul has gone on to receive 12 Clio awards for his creative work on "Showtime" and "Bolla Sparkling Wines", as well as Art Directors Club awards and an Addy Award. Paul's work has been profiled in Adweek, Ad Age, Art Direction Magazine, New York Daily News, Shoot and Entertainment Tonight. His client list includes companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Kraft/ General Foods, Bushmills Irish Whiskey, Olga and Scassi Lingerie, Hathaway Shirts, Texaco, Disney, NBC, The Bahamas Tourism Bureau and U.S. Virgin Island's Frenchmen's Reef, Lucayan Island Resort & Casino. Paul has freelanced at NBC studios in New York and also taught professionals how to do computer graphics at Manhattan's Macintosh Learning Center. In entertainment, Paul has been involved in two pilots - Joe Piscopo Special(NBC) and Will Eisner's "The Spirit"(Fox). Paul is also the proud father of Tara Lucy Lepelletier now at Penn State and cousin of Comedian Allison Lepelletier whom he shares the same birthday with.