John Sammon

This is another commercial that I wrote and directed for Playhouse Square. It was to help promote their 2007 Broadway Series website. More details on the contest to come.

Mr. Clean promoted their Magic Eraser with a contest back in 2007. They challenged you to create a commercial to help promote their product. I wrote the commercial and had friends act and film it. I didn’t win the grand prize but sure got a lot of enjoyment out of the piece I produced.

The Education Department at Playhouse Square asked me to come up and produce a commercial to promote their lunch-time “Speak Up Classes.” These classes help working professionals with public speaking. They wanted something outside the box and funny. So we shot this in the winter of 2007.

In the fall of 2006, I was charged with coming up with some kind of interactive contest to target a “younger audience.” The typical target audience for Playhouse Square is women age 60-65. We felt that Spamalot was a great show to test out this sort of contest. After doing some research, I came up [...]