Golden Time with Work Editorial's Trish Fuller
By Anthony Vagnoni & Chandler Atton
Hailing from Paisley, Scotland, Trish Fuller began her career in the UK, working at Whitehouse Post in London. She followed the company to New York (with a stop in Italy), where her editing career truly took off. She made the city her home before pulling up roots and heading across the Hudson – but more on that later.
Trish moved from Whitehouse to Work Editorial almost a decade ago, where she joined a roster of award-winning editors. Earlier this year she was promoted to Creative Partner, joining a group that includes industry heavyweights like Jane Dilworth, Rich Orrick, Neil Smith, Bill Smedley, Stewart Reeves, Ben Jordan, and fellow Creative Partner Niles Howard.
Her showreel runs a wild gamut of styles, techniques and content formats, from commercials to music videos and more. As an editor she likes to play with tempo and cut to a rhythm that not only matches the story but reflects the whirl of everyday life. Among her advertising clients are brands such as FanDuel, Door Dash, Walmart, McDonald’s, VW, IBM, and Chase Bank. She’s also brought her deft touch to a spot for Huggies that ran on the Super Bowl.
Trish is no stranger to the awards show winners' circle herself, as spots she’s cut have won Cannes Lions, AICP Post Awards (in the Storytelling category), the Shark Awards and Gold honors from shots’ The Americas Awards. And she’s not limited to the small screen, either; her debut screenplay, “Burds,” is now in pre-production. And despite her travels, she likes to point out that she’s still one hundred percent Scottish.
The Howler recently caught up with her to find out how she likes to spend her Golden Time. Accent and all, here’s what she had to tell us:
Where do you live? And what do you like best about where you live?
Trish: I live in a small town in New Jersey called Springfield. I moved there from Brooklyn. When I told my friends I was leaving Brooklyn for NJ, they thought I was mental and had lost my will to live. I love it so much, it’s the absolute best – great community, safe, easy access to the city, and no wankers or finance guys and their blogger wives. I also live next to a reservation where we walk our dogs, so there’s tons of nature and animals.
How’d you get into the business?
Trish: My brother owns an antiquarian children’s bookshop in London, and he used to sell books to one of the editors at Whitehouse Post. I got hired to work as a runner one summer and thought I was the shit running around with film cans in Soho. It was eye-opening and life-changing, as I don’t know if I ever would have gotten the opportunity to experience anything like that, at that time.
How often do you end up working on the weekend?
Trish: Edit-wise, if I have dailies on a Friday and I’m officially ‘not starting ‘til Monday,’ I’ll do some work on the weekend. I really can’t rest ‘til I’m happy with the edit, I’m a bit of a psycho in that regard. I’ve also written a film script called “Burds” with my best friend from home, based on our group of pals growing up in Scotland. It’s been doing well on the festival circuit and has won some awards. We now have an amazing director attached, which is very exciting. So I spend a lot of time pushing that forward and up the bloody hill, inch by inch. If you know of anyone who’d like to invest in a comedy about a bunch of drunk Scottish teenagers, send them my way. 😊
What’s your favorite weekend decompression activity?
Trish: Oh, you know – watching videos of Ricky Martin at the 2025 VMAs or any Pedro Pascal content – I’m joking (not!). Without sounding like a fanny, I do a lot of yoga and cycling. Exercise helps me relax and focus. I also have a son who plays every kind of baseball out there, it seems. So, a lot of weekends you’ll find me sitting on the bleachers, accidentally cheering on the other team, and not really knowing what’s happening.
It’s a three-day weekend. How do you spend that bonus day?
Trish: I like to spend as much time as I can forcing my teenage kids to hang out with me. We call it 'forced family fun time.’ I’ll take any opportunity I can at beating my son at mini golf, or for that matter, any game. I like to foster a really competitive environment in my household, you know, a healthy ‘winning is the only thing that matters’ kind of vibe. I also like to read. I just finished Keith McNally's “I Regret Almost Everything” and Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn,” which I’d never read before. At the moment I’m reading "John & Paul - A Love Story in Songs,” about Lennon and McCartney’s partnership.
How much time do you spend on your phone or laptop on a typical weekend?
Trish: If I’m not working, I try to stay off them; they’re a mind and energy suck. I like to be outside as much as possible since I spend so much time working in a dark room.
What have you been watching lately?
Trish: I loved “The Studio.” Anything funny and light at this moment that we’re living in helps. I’m still mourning the end of “Succession,” and can’t seem to move forward, although “White Lotus” helps. Saying that, I’m partial to a depressing foreign doc – some nice, relaxing bedtime TV watching.
What do you listen to? What’s on your playlist?
Trish: Depends on my mood – The Cure, The Smiths, The Jam – basically any band that has the word ‘The’ in front of it. I love Run the Jewels, Vampire Weekend, Belle and Sebastian, and The Proclaimers when I’m homesick. Oh, I LOVE me some Bad Bunny and Charlie xcx.
Best weekend live experience of the past year: concert, sporting event, gallery visit, movie?
Trish: I’ve recently been working on a project in L.A. and had a weekend off. I have a good friend who lives there, and we went to Twentynine Palms for the weekend. I was blown away, I loved it so much. We went to see the Noah Purifoy outdoor museum – so inspiring to see someone who spent so much time on their own, out in the desert creating these crazy masterpieces. We also sat in the sun, drank tequila, and had a good bitch session, which wasn’t too shabby either.
So it’s Sunday night already! How do you get ready for Monday morning? What’s your routine?
Trish: I like to express myself through dancing in my knickers with the lights on so my neighbors can watch. Really depends on what I’m working on. Sometimes I like to stare into the void for hours and have an existential crisis; other nights, it’s a bowl of pasta, bed, and “The Sound of Music.”
