Rick Miramontez Joins OPR As Managing Partner

Rick Miramontez, the New York and Los Angeles-based publicist, will join OPR/Origlio Public Relations, the Manhattan-based publicity firm, as Managing Partner.  Effective July 1, 2006, the firm will become O & M - Origlio/Miramontez Co.

Miramontez is currently an account executive at Barlow/Hartman, where he represents Sweeney Todd, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Producers.  He was also account executive at Richard Kornberg & Associates, where he was a rep of Hairspray and Rent, among many others.  His personal clients include Lynn Redgrave, Joel Grey, Harvey Fierstein and Epic Theatre Company (whose current production, No Child, is a sold-out hit at The Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row), among others.

Miramontez began his career in Los Angeles as Press Director of the CTG / Ahmanson Theatre, under the direction of Robert Fryer, where he represented more than 25 productions.  He served as Press Director of the Los Angeles Festival, which introduced Cirque du Soleil and Peter Brook's The Mahabharata to America.  His eponymous Los Angeles-based company was formed in 1988, and represented many major arts events on that coast for more than eight years, including the American Premiere of Sunset Boulevard; Los Angeles Festival (under the direction of Peter Sellars); and the UK/LA Festival, featuring the American premiere of Stomp, and the Royal Visit by HRH The Prince of Wales.

OPR/Origlio Public Relations, the New York-based theatrical and music PR agency, has represented the world premieres of such award-winning plays and musicals as Sarah Jones' bridge & tunnel; the recent Obie winner In the Continuum; David Ives's All In the Timing; Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly and Shakespeare's R & J, among many others.  It currently represents the New York revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; The Culture Project (producer of such shows as The Exonerated and Guantánamo: Honor Bound To Defend Freedom, and many more); Primary Stages; Paper Mill Playhouse and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

On the music front OPR represents McDonald's Gospelfest (Aretha Franklin), singer/composer Peter Cincotti, Café Carlyle (Elaine Stritch, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Cook, Ute Lemper and others), the jazz club Birdland, Concord Records and Karen Akers.

In its 27 year history OPR has worked on many diverse projects including Cirque Eloize's New York productions of Rain and Cirque Orchestra; the Grammy campaign for record producer Phil Ramone's Album of the Year Award for Ray Charles's Genius Loves Company; Brazilian singer/composers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil; and the writer/raconteur Quentin Crisp.