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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, California

• Public Relations Campaigns: Wrote and implemented successful strategic public relations plans for national tours, regional theater companies, and individual engagements at a variety of arts venues around the San Francisco Bay Area. • Special Events Management: Hired by well-known celebrity to produce a “Welcome Back to San Francisco” party. Responsibilities included inviting and introducing actor to Bay Area movers-and-shakers, dignitaries, and media, handling logistics between venue, vendors and celebrity, securing Mayoral Proclamation, and more. • Crisis Communication: Executed successful crisis communications plan. Responsibilities included writing and disseminating official statements to local, national and international media coordinating interviews, fielding media requests, monitoring media hits, and more. • Community Partnership: Developed successful partnerships with arts organizations and well-known food vendors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to further develop brand awareness and garner media hits. • Social media: Created and implemented successful social media campaigns for clients• Standard Operating Procedures: Created and implemented standard operating procedures to ensure consistency across various Bay Area lifestyle and entertainment companies. • Press Pass Guidelines: Created and implemented press pass guidelines that have been used at entertainment and lifestyle companies around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. • Team Player: Created a public relations calendar for San Francisco Bay Area theaters to prevent press nights from occurring on the same night. Spearheaded and organized get-togethers with other San Francisco Bay Area publicists to share valuable information regarding updated media contacts, etc.

• Developed and implemented a comprehensive public relations campaigns for the opening of Feinstein’s at the Nikko, Michael Feinstein’s San Francisco-based nightclub. Since its inception, have created individual public relations campaigns for a range of artists, including Megan Mullally & Stephanie Hunt, Tony Danza, Jeff Goldblum, Kathleen Turner, Liza Minnelli, Sutton Foster, Lea Salonga, Ana Gasteyer, Wayne Brady, Alan Cumming, Jennifer Holliday, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Vonda Shepard, Laura Benanti, Minnie Driver, Rita Moreno, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Aaron Tveit, and more.• Chef Yigit Pura and Tout Sweet Pâtisserie: Handled the public relations for Chef Yigit Pura, winner of the first season of BRAVO’S “Top Chef: Just Desserts.” Achievements include successful PR campaign for the opening of two Tout Sweet Pâtisserie locations (San Francisco & Palo Alto), strategic local and national PR campaign for the release of Chef Pura’s cookbook, “Sweet Alchemy,” chef demos and special appearances, and more. • Handle the public relations campaigns for one of the nation’s top regional theater companies. Achievements include: secured local, national and international coverage for the opening of a second theater, individual campaigns for mainstage productions, elevated visibility of education programs, and more. • Handle the public relations for Broadway San Jose, home to Broadway’s national touring productions. Individual PR campaigns include: Motown The Musical, Newsies, Pippin, Beauty and the Beast, Once, The Wizard of Oz, Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, Cabaret, The Sound of Music, Disney’s The Lion King, The Bodyguard, Billy Crystal’s Spend the Night with Billy Crystal tour. Also handled institutional PR for Broadway San Jose, which included the Rita Moreno California High School Musical Honors.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Public Relations Campaigns: Effectively utilized all aspects of public relations to develop and implement comprehensive campaigns and media junkets for: Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, The Curvy Widow (starring Cybill Shepherd), Dame Edna: Live & Intimate in Her First Last Tour, Mamma Mia! (2007 National Tour), Cirque du Soleil’s KA (2007 Chinese New Year Opening Act), Smuin Ballet, the U.S. Premiere of OVO by Cirque du Soleil, Quidam by Cirque du Soleil, Totem by Cirque du Soleil, and Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour by Cirque du Soleil. • Community Relations Management: Managed entire community campaign for Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon “Scholarship for the Arts.” Highlights include booking celebrity judges, taking cast members to high schools in the Bay Area to discuss “Scholarship” and arranging interviews with “Scholarship” winners to highlight the Foundation’s giving.• Special Events Management: Oversaw production and implementation of logistics of events for numerous clients, most notable include: Meals on Wheels’ Star Chefs & Vintners and San Francisco General Hospital Foundation’s Annual ‘Heroes & Hearts’ benefit.• Non-Profit Partnership: Created and produced “Broadway Against Bullying,” a one-night-only holiday benefit cabaret featuring stars of Broadway, for two consecutive years. Money raised went directly to No Bully, a not-for-profit organization committed to ending bullying in schools.• Emmy Award-Winning Campaign: Pitched and executed a behind-the-scenes special on Cirque du Soleil. San Francisco’s KGO-TV (ABC affiliate) won a Northern California Area Emmy Award (Arts/Entertainment: Program/Special) for the special.

• Special Events Management: Coordinated logistics of special events for numerous clients, including: Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of York’s arrival at Beach Blanket Babylon with local, national and international media coverage while also managing security for guests, as well as credentialing American and British media.• Electronic Press Kit: Developed the first comprehensive Electronic Press Kit (EPK) for Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon. This provided the media with information more expeditiously while also allowing the client to update materials with ongoing show changes. • Theatrical Special Events Support: Supported logistics for special events occurring at theatric production companies, the most notable include: 30th Anniversary of Beach Blanket Babylon, the world premiere of Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE (Las Vegas) and Reach for Tomorrow, Research Today, a stem-cell benefit featuring Julie Andrews.