Laurie Graff Email and Phone Number

PUBLICIST: FreelancerPrivate clients for corporate, consumer, and book PRPUBLISHED AUTHOR: NOVELS: You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs (Red Dress Ink, HQN - MIRA reissue), The Shiksa Syndrome (Broadway, Random House), Looking For Mr. Goodfrog (Red Dress Ink, HQN). CONTRIBUTOR: No Kidding (Seal), NY Times “Complaint Box,” Live Alone and Like It (Grand Central), It’s A Wonderful Lie (Grand Central), The Eight Dates of Hanukkah (Red Dress Ink), New Monologues for Women by Women, The Best Mens’ Stage Monologues of 1999. SHORT PLAYS: Better Than Steve 7 Eydie (Finalist Summit Playhouse), The Incredible Egg (Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Min Plays 2016), All My Problems (Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Min Plays 2013), Telephone Call for Francine Stein, Love in the Time of Recession, Charlie & Flo produced at WorkShop Theater Company (member since 1997) and PS NBC. PUBLIC SPEAKER:Booked on national media: radio and television, speaking engagements and book tours. Former professional actor NY/LA worked Broadway, National Tours, Off B’way, Regional Theater, TV and radio commercials, print ads and performed original writing material.

Consumer/lifestyle specialist focusing in broadcast placements

Freelance public and media relations work building brands for moms and toys including Teletubbies, Clean Label Project, littleBits, Peppa Pig and PAI Technology.

Press release writer for numerous well-known lifestyle brands.

E-newsletters and outreach, event planning, social media, direct sales.

Create and write pitches that secure client placements/bookings for print, radio, broadcast, and online. In the trenches pitching: e-mail and phone. Prepare entries, bios for conferences and awards.

Integrated into teams on-site for long-term assignments doing full-service lifestyle and consumer PR for clients that included Hewlett Packard, Gillette, Dannon, Oral-B, Benadryl and Braun, WonderBra, American Family Publishers, Macaundo and Volvo.