Rick Miramontez began his career, direct from college, as the press director of the Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre where he organized the campaigns for more than 25 major productions, including the RSC’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and world premieres of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, and James Kirkwood’s infamous Legends! (starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing, and documented in Kirkwood’s hilarious book, Diary of a Mad Playwright). He was the press director for the 1987 and 1990 Los Angeles Festival (the latter under the direction of Peter Sellars), seminal events in the American cultural world, where he presented Cirque du Soleil to the U.S. media, as well as Peter Brook’s epic The Mahabharata.
On my very first episode, I chat with superpower press representative Rick Miramontez, co-founder and President of O&M, one of the leading publicity companies on The Great White Way. Kinky Boots, It’s Only A Play, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Beautiful . . . and that show that never got any press at all . . . Spider-Man . . . are just a few of Rick’s clients.
We discuss press relations on Broadway and much more!
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