Associate Creative Director, Video · Chicago

Rebecca
Russell

10+ years leading high-impact video campaigns across broadcast, digital, and social, driving measurable performance through creative strategy, team leadership, and brand partnerships.

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Selected work

Video & Campaigns

Selected partners

Home Chef Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Minecraft SpongeBob SquarePants TMNT Paw Patrol Ludo Studio BBC Studios

About

Creative director.
Team builder.
Storyteller.

Rebecca Russell on set Rebecca Russell directing Rebecca Russell with team

I joined Home Chef in 2021 and have spent the years since building an in-house video production team from scratch, hiring additional producers, video editors, and content creators. Today I lead a team of four full-time creatives plus freelancers, overseeing everything from larger scale partnership campaign concepting and production to performance marketing content at scale.

Before Home Chef, I spent time at SRW Agency as a one-person photo/video department for retained clients, and before that directing and producing sponsored content at Food52 and Real Simple / Time Inc. in New York.

I'm a collaborator at heart with a background in theater from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, which means I think about story structure, performance, and the human moment in everything I make.

Partners & clients

Brands I've made work for

Gordon Ramsay Dolly Parton Rachael Ray Giada de Laurentiis Maria Sharapova Half Baked Harvest Bluey BBC Studios Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Disney Minecraft Microsoft SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon Peppa Pig Hasbro Paw Patrol Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nickelodeon Panera Home Depot Smirnoff Bloomingdale's Bosch Simple Mills Harvest Snaps

Skills & tools

Concepting
Creative direction Campaign concepting Branded content Storyboarding Script development Brainstorming Figma AI-assisted ideation
Production
Talent direction Casting Vendor bidding & hiring Partnership production On-set direction AI workflow integration
Post-production
Adobe Premiere Pro After Effects Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Artlist

Contact

Let's make something.

Open to creative director opportunities and select freelance projects.