Exclusive: One of the longest business partnerships in Hollywood is coming to an end. Lisa Kasteler will be retiring from Wolf Kasteler after steering the agency alongside founder Annett Wolf into a PR powerhouse for the past 32 years.
Kasteler will be leaving at the end of the month, winding down a 50-year career in PR, to become Executive Director of the Matthew Perry Foundation. Perry was a client of Kasteler — and the Wolf Kasteler agency — for 28 years until his sudden death Oct. 28 at the age of 54.
Before his passing, Perry had planned to start a foundation to help others overcome drug and alcohol abuse, which he had hoped to be his legacy. His friends and loved ones are now carrying on that legacy with the recently launched Matthew Perry Foundation, which is committed to identifying addiction as a disease, addressing stigmas that prevent individuals from seeking and accessing care, and...
Kasteler will be leaving at the end of the month, winding down a 50-year career in PR, to become Executive Director of the Matthew Perry Foundation. Perry was a client of Kasteler — and the Wolf Kasteler agency — for 28 years until his sudden death Oct. 28 at the age of 54.
Before his passing, Perry had planned to start a foundation to help others overcome drug and alcohol abuse, which he had hoped to be his legacy. His friends and loved ones are now carrying on that legacy with the recently launched Matthew Perry Foundation, which is committed to identifying addiction as a disease, addressing stigmas that prevent individuals from seeking and accessing care, and...
- 12/6/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Slate PR, the full-scale entertainment public relations firm based in Hollywood and New York, has promoted 10 staffers, including Shawn Purdy to Evp status and four others to VP.
Purdy, who has been with the company founded by Robin Baum, Andy Gelb, Simon Halls, Stephen Huvane and Ina Treciokas since its 2010 inception, becomes Evp Events and Brands. She will work with Gelb on the Tony Awards, National Board of Review, The Vulture Festival and The Angel Ball. Lindsey Brown becomes a VP in the division, working with clients including amfAR, Bally Brands, Christian Siriano and Aspca.
Also upped to VP status: Chelsea Hayes, based in New York, who works with Halls on clients including Neil Patrick Harris, Billy Crudup, and the Tonys, as well as her own clients Andrew Lincoln and Sutton Foster; Laurina Spencer, who works with Baum for clients including Teresa Palmer, Naomi Watts and James Franco and her own clients Christian Navarro,...
Purdy, who has been with the company founded by Robin Baum, Andy Gelb, Simon Halls, Stephen Huvane and Ina Treciokas since its 2010 inception, becomes Evp Events and Brands. She will work with Gelb on the Tony Awards, National Board of Review, The Vulture Festival and The Angel Ball. Lindsey Brown becomes a VP in the division, working with clients including amfAR, Bally Brands, Christian Siriano and Aspca.
Also upped to VP status: Chelsea Hayes, based in New York, who works with Halls on clients including Neil Patrick Harris, Billy Crudup, and the Tonys, as well as her own clients Andrew Lincoln and Sutton Foster; Laurina Spencer, who works with Baum for clients including Teresa Palmer, Naomi Watts and James Franco and her own clients Christian Navarro,...
- 4/20/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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