Stephie Coplan | ECD | Los Angeles

Hi! I'm Stephie, the Executive Creative Director and Head of Agency at in Los Angeles, California.

It was as if I had been a sleeper agent my whole life, and getting my first creative brief activated the latent Doogie Howser contest winner inside me. Like a cursed doll, I sprang to life spewing headlines and never stopped.

Since then, I’ve worked agency-side and brand-side, at giant companies and tiny ones, in America and Canada (random side quest), both the well and the Unwell. I’ve been recognized at international award shows, won Fortune 50 pitches, turned around creative departments, built agencies, taught advertising classes, and made some of my best friends along the way.

Mostly, I just love making smart, funny stuff with people who are smarter and funnier than I am and then bolting upright in bed at 2 AM the night after it goes live with the perfect punch line.

When I’m not making ads, I’m usually writing songs, hiking, overanalyzing reality television with my dog, or threatening to write a novel while continuing to recklessly provide myself with endless source material.

Some kids come out of the womb calmly assembling Lego castles with the concentration of a German watchmaker and you just know they’re headed for a future in orthopedic surgery or actuarial science or whatever profession requires a person to enjoy following instructions. Other kids hurl themselves off the roof of a treehouse with a beach towel tied around their neck and you think: there goes tomorrow’s stunt pilot.

If I could’ve chosen my own destiny, I probably would’ve become an astrobiologist. I spent my whole childhood convinced I must have been from a different planet, and later, in middle school, the cool kids would pretty much confirm it. But in first grade, when I won my first advertising award, it became clear I was doomed—sorry, destined—no wait, I had it right the first time, doomed—to become a copywriter.

I spent the next twenty years trying to outrun it, ricocheting like a confused pinball from a law firm in Boston to an education nonprofit in Newark to accidentally charting at #15 on rock radio and touring for two years with my band.

But as soon as I stepped inside my first ad agency, I knew I was home.