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Polk & Co., 1 of Broadway‘s starring publicity offices, is upping longtime property agents Colgan McNeil and Kelly Stotmeister to nan activity squad arsenic partners alongside laminitis Matt Polk.
The firm, which useful crossed commercialized and non-profit unrecorded theatrical shape productions connected and Off Broadway, film, television, typical events and taste performing arts organizations, described nan promotions arsenic “strategically expanding nan activity team” while positioning nan institution for semipermanent growth.
Established successful 2013, Polk & Co. has, for 4 consecutive years (2022–2025), represented nan Tony Award–winning Best Musical aliases Best Musical Revival, and has represented nan Grammy Award winners for Best Musical Theatre Album successful 2024, 2025, and 2026. In 2026, productions represented by Polk & Co. secured 7 Tony Awards.
Polk & Co.’s existent Broadway customer database includes Becky Shaw, Buena Vista Social Club, Chess, Death Becomes Her, Dog Day Afternoon, Fallen Angels, Giant, Just In Time, The Lost Boys, Maybe Happy Ending, The Rocky Horror Show and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
“Colgan McNeil and Kelly Stotmeister joined Polk & Co. complete a decade ago,” said laminitis Polk, “and from nan start, they embodied nan activity ethic, values, and philosophical attack that defines this company. They person only deepened that instauration complete nan years, absorbing nan trade of property agenting from nan exceptional elder activity successful nan agency of Jessica Johnson, Tom D’Ambrosio, and Wayne Wolfe.”
He added, “It is pinch tremendous pridefulness and excitement that I denote they are becoming partners astatine Polk & Co. This is simply a nickname agelong successful nan making, and I look guardant to building nan adjacent decade of this institution alongside them.”
McNeil and Stotmeister bring complete 2 decades of mixed acquisition to their caller roles, having overseen campaigns crossed much than 100 unrecorded theatrical productions, galore movie campaigns and crossed nan non-profit sector. They person led aliases worked connected campaigns for specified productions arsenic Merrily We Roll Along, Hell’s Kitchen, Some Like It Hot, Funny Girl, Back to nan Future, Come From Away, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, Network and The Color Purple.
Polk & Co.’s awesome nonprofit and taste statement clients see Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theater, The Shed, and nan Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC). The patient besides provides strategical PR for workplace theatrical divisions including Universal Theatrical Group and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, and partners pinch societal effect organizations shaping nan industry, including Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Black Theatre United.
Beyond accepted theater, nan agency has developed consulting relationships pinch streamers and independent intermezo companies connected theater-inspired projects, including activity pinch Apple TV+, The CW, Disney, FOX, Netflix, Paramount, Amazon Prime Video, Roadside Attractions, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and Hulu.
The changes astatine nan agency travel weeks aft different starring Broadway publicity firm, Boneau/Bryan-Brown, announced caller main ownership and a sanction alteration to Aperture Public Relations. Formed successful 1991 by property agents Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, nan recently christened Aperture will beryllium helmed by Heath Schwartz and Michelle Farabaugh, property agents and longtime labor of nan agency.
