Rick Miramontez
RICK MIRAMONTEZ is currently president of O&M Co., a New York-based full-service arts public relations firm that serves everything from the Broadway world, to the music business, to world-class non-profit institutions. Among the company's current clients are Disney Theatrical Productions, Culture Project, MCC Theatre, Primary Stages, Epic Theatre Center, Cafe Carlyle, Birdland, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Harvey Fierstein, Joel Grey, and numerous theatrical productions, among others. Rick began his career as the press director of the Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre where he organized the press 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 (starring Matthew Broderick), and James Kirkwood's infamous Legends! (starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing). He was the press director for the 1987 and 1990 Los Angeles Festival (the latter under the direction of Peter Sellars) where he presented Cirque du Soleil to the American media, as well as Peter Brook's epic The Mahabharata. From 1988-1996, Rick headed his own firm, Rick Miramontez Company, which represented many of the major arts events on the West Coast, including the American Premiere of Sunset Boulevard, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Cirque du Soleil at Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles Festival, Pasadena Playhouse and UK/LA. In New York, Miramontez was behind the press campaigns for Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, among others, and was account executive for Rent, The Producers and Long Days Journey Into Night, to name a few. The artists with whom he has worked include Lauren Bacall, Alan Bates, Ingmar Bergman, John Cage, Glenn Close, David Copperfield, Merce Cunningham, Eve Ensler, Lillian Hellman, Charlton Heston, David Henry Hwang, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth LeCompte, John Lithgow, Patti LuPone, Dorothy McGuire, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Jack O'Brien, Jonathan Pryce, Chita Rivera, George Rose, Peter Shaffer, Stephen Sondheim, Tommy Tune, Peter Ustinov, and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, among countless others. Bio as of June, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) The Publicists' World - May, 2012 - Watch now. SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2007 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)