About
Founded by Joe Trentacosta, JT Public Relations is a full service public relations firm.
As a public relations company, JT Public Relations believes in straightforward, honest and open communication with clients and the media. We create strategic, proactive, customized campaigns that enhance our clients' brands while reaching their target audiences.
With over 20 years of experience and over 200 productions, JT Public Relations has handled clients on and Off Broadway, as well as productions in development, in festival and on tour.
What we cover
From first idea to opening night.
Our approach
“Our campaigns are uniquely tailored for each client and are a balance of tried and true industry standards combined with creative, outside the box thinking. The goal is to garner media attention that is advantageous and appropriate.”
Meet the founder
Joe Trentacosta, President
Joe began his career in public relations as an assistant at Springer/Chicoine PR, working on the Tony Award winning Side Man and Judgment at Nuremberg. He rose through the ranks to become Vice President of Springer Associates PR, overseeing all live theatrical and special events, including the campaigns for the Earth, Wind and Fire musical Hot Feet and the multicultural Broadway productions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones and Terrence Howard and A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood.
Off-Broadway companies have included The Actor's Company, Theatre for a New Audience, The Women's Project, TADA! Youth Theater, Amas Musical Theatre, Urban Stages, Theatre Breaking Through Barriers and NJ Rep, as well as the long running hit The Gazillion Bubble Show. Throughout his career he has worked with talent including Tom Cruise, Will Smith, John Travolta, Al Pacino, Debbie Allen, Steve Buscemi, Anika Noni Rose and Phylicia Rashad.
He is currently Executive Producer of Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo at New World Stages, co-producer of The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, and co-conceiver and producer of Six Triple Eight The Musical.
In good company
Clients have been featured in
- ABC NY
- AFP
- AM NY
- American Theatre Magazine
- Amsterdam News
- Associated Press
- BBC
- Bloomberg TV
- Boston Globe
- CBS Sunday Morning
- Chicago Tribune
- CNBC
- CNN
- Ebony
- Entertainment Weekly
- Essence
- Fox News
- Good Morning America
- Harper's Bazaar
- LA Times
- MSNBC
- New York Daily News
- New York Post
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- Newsday
- NY1
- NPR
- Oprah Winfrey Show
- Parade
- People
- Reuters
- Rolling Stone
- The Hollywood Reporter
- The View
- Time
- Time Out NY
- Today Show
- USA Today
- Vanity Fair
- Variety
- Village Voice
- Vogue
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- WNYC
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