Me

Richard Sabean

• Director

• Photographer

• Artist

• Recovering creative director

• Diehard Red Sox fan

That’s really all you need to know, but if you’ve got time, read on.

With a couple of Google searches you’ll turn up an array of articles, hopefully some interesting information and an assortment of my past work. Some of it damn good. I have a bunch of gold medals, lucite objects, engraved bowls, statues of lions and naked guys with wings, that say so.

For a bunch of years I was an Art Director, Creative Director then ECD at a number of ad agencies, BBDO, McCann Erickson, TBWA (before the merger with Chiat-Day), Chiat-Day (before the merger with TBWA), Bloom FCA, JWT and last and least McGarry Bowen.

Over the years I have created and directed work for many clients, here’s a list of some: Pepsi, Coke, Frito Lay, Evian, Nabisco, Red Lobster, KFC, Dominos, Pizzeria Uno, Trident Gum, Chevron, Gillette, Schick, Cottonelle, Scott Paper, Smirnoff, Michelob, Miller, Inglenook Wine, Grand Marnier, Triaminic, Theraflu, Tavist-D, Neosporin, Citibank, Chrysler, Dodge, Disney, Busch Gardens, Loews Theaters, GE, Polaroid, US Olympic Committee, United Way, and recently, the Lisa Foundation for brain aneurysm awareness.

Being reasonably good at hanging sheet rock, laying tile and various other construction related tasks, I’ve been renovating a cottage in Sag Harbor, for the past twenty years. I’ve also been known to cobble together a piece of furniture from an old log, a bird house from remnant wood or a lamp from a bunch of plumbing pipe. From time to time, I spend hours in shallow water listening to music while digging clams, followed shortly by chowder. New England of course, there is no other kind.

Speaking of New England, I grew up there, in Scituate, MA, to be exact. The Red Sox, Patriots and Bruins are my teams of choice. 2004 changed my life forever and deflate gate is utter nonsense.

Like many others, I’m writing a screenplay, once upon a time I sailed, with a few acquaintances, from St Pete, FL across the Gulf of Mexico to Isla Mujeres. My long-term goal is to run a bar/restaurant/paddle board rental concession on a tropical island…I’m still scouting for the right location.

Shooting on El Porto Beach, CA.

Scouting in Bismark, ND.

Shooting commercial and stills for the USOC.

On location outside Bakersfield, CA.

Break from directing in El Segundo with fave AD, JP Bouchard.

Here’s the first commercial I directed – for Ex-lax, of all things.

Directing bull rider in Houston.