Bennett Windheim Creative Director, Next Street Agency

Bennett’s primary focus is on the creation and execution of strategic marketing solutions for Next Street’s clients. His work extends across disciplines, including marketing, advertising, branding, speechwriting, public relations, video production, documentary filmmaking, playwriting and stage direction. With 20 years of experience, Bennett’s clients have included American Express, AOL, IBM, HBO, Business Week, Fortune, In Style, Money, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the National Association for Autism Research.

Prior to joining Next Street, Bennett was a creative director at Time, Inc. where he worked for more than a decade. During that time he conceived and executed the creative support for the Time to Give Back campaign, CEO Ann Moore’s in-house fundraising initiative to benefit New York City public schools and other causes. There, he was again tapped by Moore to produce a tribute video upon Henry Luce’s induction to the Advertising Hall of Fame. He received the Time Inc. President’s Award for his work on the launch of AOL Food.

Bennett wrote and produced the television pilot, The Barn Boys, as well as the documentary Eleanor: Godmother of American Fashion, for Vanity Fair and Saks Fifth Avenue.

An award-winning playwright, he recently completed the book for the musical Cross that River, in collaboration with jazz great Allan Harris, about the black experience in the American West during and in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.

Bennett has a B.A. from Pace University, and did his graduate work at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.