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Boneau/Bryan-Brown, for much than 30 years 1 of Broadway‘s busiest preeminent property agencies representing hundreds of shows pinch campaigns garnering 254 Tony Awards, is soon to person caller main ownership and a sanction alteration to Aperture Public Relations.
Formed successful 1991 by property agents Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown and quickly establishing itself successful nan forefront of a modern and influential style of Broadway publicity, Boneau/Bryan-Brown will now beryllium helmed by Heath Schwartz and Michelle Farabaugh, property agents and longtime labor of nan agency. Schwartz and Farabaugh person acquired main ownership, pinch nan Aperture rebranding effective June 1.
Schwartz and Farabaugh will lead Aperture Public Relations arsenic Partners and Co-Presidents while Bryan-Brown will proceed providing customer services and Boneau will beryllium an independent consultant. Deadline hears nan determination to measurement backmost from progressive ownership was made by nan 2 founders.
In a statement, Boneau and Bryan-Brown said, “We cognize Heath and Michelle are going to lead a caller era successful communications trading for theatre — successful New York, nationwide, and globally. With their extended manufacture knowledge, acquisition and expertise, not only will they proceed to connection timely unparalleled guidance and support to nan industry, but they will besides thrust invention and redefine really theatre is promoted. We are truthful excited for nan motorboat of Aperture.”
Said Schwartz and Farabaugh: “Boneau/Bryan-Brown has agelong group nan golden modular among intermezo connection firms, serving not only arsenic an manufacture leader but arsenic an incubator for immoderate of nan astir accomplished property agents moving today. As Broadway and nan media scenery proceed to evolve, we clasp this adjacent section pinch volition and vision. With our trusted team, Aperture will unfastened nan lens of opportunity to what’s imaginable for our clients, framing caller perspectives and cutting done nan sound to bring their stories into crisp and compelling focus. We are profoundly grateful to Chris and Adrian for their years of mentorship and for nan spot they’ve placed successful america to transportation this bequest forward.”
Current unit and clients are expected to stay successful place. Those existent clients see nan Tony Award-winning Broadway productions Chicago, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Outsiders, and Six: The Musical; Off Broadway hits Mexodus and The Play That Goes Wrong; and institutions including Atlantic Theater Company, Audible Theater, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Classic Stage Company, and Paper Mill Playhouse. The institution besides serves arsenic a advisor to The Broadway Cruise, The Cape Playhouse, International Literary Properties, and Lively McCabe.
Over nan years, Boneau/Bryan-Brown has represented much than 400 theatrical productions connected and Off Broadway, connected nationalist tour, and crossed nan globe. In summation to nan 254 Tony Awards, nan firm’s clients person won 12 Pulitzer Prizes, 244 Drama Desk Awards, 178 Outer Critics Circle Awards, and galore different recognitions.
Boneau/Bryan-Brown’s customer database complete nan decades sounds for illustration astatine slightest respective chapters successful a Broadway history text, from Angels In America; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Beauty and nan Beast; Sunset Boulevard, Company, Skylight, Titanic, Steel Pier, The Lion King, Art, Urinetown, Mamma Mia!, Take Me Out, Gypsy, Caroline, Or Change, Doubt, Jersey Boys, Ragtime, Fences, The Book of Mormon, Once, Motown The Musical, Something Rotten and Spring Awakening to Waitress, The Ferryman, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and Prayer For The French Republic, among galore others.
Schwartz began moving arsenic a property supplier astatine Boneau/Bryan-Brown successful 2004. Over his 22-year career, he has led nan campaigns for Chicago, Harry Potter and nan CursedChild, Moulin Rouge! The Musical and The Outsiders, arsenic good arsenic specified past shows as Mean Girls, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Elephant Man, Living connected Love, Pippin, The Heiress, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Stick Fly, Follies, The House of Blue Leaves, The Motherf*cker With nan Hat, Fences, Next Fall, A Little Night Music, Shrek The Musical, and more. Other Broadway credits see nan world hit Jersey Boys, which he opened and worked connected passim its full 11-year Broadway run, on with Is He Dead?, The Farnsworth Invention, Frost/Nixon, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Drowsy Chaperone, Doubt and more, including productions connected and Off Broadway for Manhattan Theatre Club and Signature Theatre.
Farabaugh joined Boneau/Bryan-Brown arsenic an intern successful 2012. In nan years since, she has represented much than 160 shows connected and Off Broadway, including nan caller Broadway return of Mamma Mia!; nan Tony Award-winning Best Plays Leopoldstadt and The Ferryman; David Byrne’s American Utopia; Mean Girls; The Notebook; Groundhog Day; Deaf West’s Spring Awakening; Here Lies Love; The Hills of California; and more. She presently useful pinch Paper Mill Playhouse and has represented Audible Theater productions since Audible’s theatrical section launched 8 years ago.
She besides spent 10 seasons astatine Manhattan Theatre Club pinch shows including August Wilson’s Jitney, nan Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost of Living, and Constellations.
