Email
tara.lawall@gmail.com
Phone
267.304.4938
Tara Lawall is an Executive Creative Director at Rethink New York, writer, and 2-time published author.
Tara has won awards at One Show, Clios, Art Directors Club, London International Awards, and Cannes, including a Titanium Lion. Her work has also been included in the Advertising and Editorial Art permanent collection at the MoMa. Additionally, she has been featured on One Club’s list of Next Creative Leaders and Pitch 100’s Superwomen list.
Outside of advertising, her editorial writing has been published in Scary Mommy, Motherly, and Parent.co. She also occasionally performs in storytelling shows across New York City including at Magnet Theater. Her first book, “This Little Piggy Went to Market in the City,” a children’s parody book she created with Rich Greco, came out in June 2021. Her second book, “There are Too Many Milks” an adult humor book she co-wrote with Anne Marie Wonder, came out in March 2023. Her first short film Retirement Plan, co-written and directed by Johnny Kelly premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2024.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Jeremy, and two kids, Cora and Rhett.
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Rethink Executive Creative Director, 2023 - present
Droga5 Executive Creative Director, 2020 - 2023
Anomaly Group Creative Director, 2019-2020
72andSunny Creative Director, 2017 - 2019
Droga5 Creative Director, 2012 - 2017
Mother Copywriter, 2011-2012
BBH Copywriter, 2011
Y&R Copywriter, 2009-2011
Miami Ad School Teacher, 2010 - 2015
Magnet Theater Storytelling 1, 2
Upright Citizens Brigade, Improv 101, 201
Miami Ad School Copywriting
Temple University B.A. in Advertising
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awards
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Cannes Silver, Bronze, 2024
D&AD Graphite, 2024
One Show Silver, 3 x Bronze, 2024
Interviewed by AdAge, Epidemic Sound’s Contextual Outdoor Ads Pairs Songs to Hundreds of Feelings out in the World, 2024
Interviewed by AdAge, Rethink hires Droga5's Tara Lawall as ECD in New York, 2023
Interviewed by Muse by Clio, 2 Minutes With ... Tara Lawall, Executive Creative Director at Droga5, 2023
D&AD Wood, 2023
One Show Bronze, 2023
Shots Gold, 2023
Clios 2 x Bronze, 2023
Interviewed by AdWeek, Junk Sleep Leads to a Life of Crime in New Mattress Firm Ad, 2022
Interviewed by The Muse by Clio, The Year in Creativity, 2021.
Interviewed on Reading With Your Kids podcast, Little Piggies in the City, 2021.
Interviewed by Little Black Book, Why Two Droga5 Employees Made a Kids Book with Jokes That Adults Would Enjoy, 2021
Interviewed by The One Club, Next Creative Leaders Spill the Tea, “Thank U, Next,” 2020
Published in Scary Mommy, For New Dads, ‘I Have To Work In The Morning’ Is Not An Excuse, 2019
Member of One Club Next Creative Leaders Jury, 2018
Member of ADCC 2018 Awards Jury, 2018
Named one of the Pitch 100 Superwomen, 2018
Interviewed by ADWEEK on Mommy Bahama, 2018
Published in Scary Mommy, 9 Things I've Learned Since Pumping At Work, 2017
Published in Mother.ly, The Unbearable Monotony of Maternity Leave, 2016
Speaker at 3% Conference, 2015
Named One Club Next Creative Leader, 2015
Cannes Shortlist, 2015
Interviewed for Little Black Book, 2015
Lectured at MADS school in Moscow, Russia, 2015
Interviewed for Miami Ad School Blog, 2015
Featured in Little Black Book for SuperRichSquares, 2014
Cannes Titanium, 2013
Cannes Cyber Silver, 2013
Featured in Agency Spy for Passive Aggressive Greeting Cards, 2012
Interviewed for Creazina, 2011
Cannes Film Bronze, 2010
One Show Silver 2 Bronze, 2 Merits, 2010
Clios Bronze 2010
Young Guns Silver, Bronze, 2010
London International Awards Gold, Silver, 2 Bronze, 2010
AICP Next Awards Inducted into the permanent film collection at the MoMA, 2010
Art Directors Club Merit, In-Book, 2010
NY Festivals 2 Silver, 2010
Communication Arts Magazine Advertising Annual 10
Communication Arts Magazine Illustration Annual 51
New York Magazine December 14, 2009
YouTube Top 10 Most Viewed Channel, 2008
Ad Age Top 10 Viral Video Chart, 2008
D&AD Silver Pencil, 2008
Graphis Young Talent Award, 2008
Luezers Archive, 2008
CMYK #42