About

Founded by Joe Trentacosta, JT Public Relations is a full service public relations firm.

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As a public relations company, JT Public Relations believes in straightforward, honest and open communication with clients and the media. We create strategic, proactive, customized campaigns that enhance our clients' brands while reaching their target audiences.

With over 20 years of experience and over 200 productions, JT Public Relations has handled clients on and Off Broadway, as well as productions in development, in festival and on tour. Highlights have included the first multi-racial production on Broadway of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad and Anika Noni Rose, A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood, The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, Anthony Rapp's Without You and the long running Off-Broadway hit The Gazillion Bubble Show.

What we cover

From first idea to opening night.

Broadway
Off-Broadway
Festival Productions
Projects in Development
Films in Release
Film Festivals
Special Events
Non-Profit Organizations

Our approach

“Our campaigns are uniquely tailored for each client and are a balance of tried and true industry standards combined with creative, outside the box thinking. The goal is to garner media attention that is advantageous and appropriate.”

Meet the founder

Joe Trentacosta, President

Joe began his career in public relations as an assistant at Springer/Chicoine PR, working on the Tony Award winning Side Man and Judgment at Nuremberg. He rose through the ranks to become Vice President of Springer Associates PR, overseeing all live theatrical and special events, including the campaigns for the Earth, Wind and Fire musical Hot Feet and the multicultural Broadway productions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones and Terrence Howard and A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood.

Off-Broadway companies have included The Actor's Company, Theatre for a New Audience, The Women's Project, TADA! Youth Theater, Amas Musical Theatre, Urban Stages, Theatre Breaking Through Barriers and NJ Rep, as well as the long running hit The Gazillion Bubble Show. Throughout his career he has worked with talent including Tom Cruise, Will Smith, John Travolta, Al Pacino, Debbie Allen, Steve Buscemi, Anika Noni Rose and Phylicia Rashad.

He is currently Executive Producer of Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo at New World Stages, co-producer of The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, and co-conceiver and producer of Six Triple Eight The Musical.

Joe Trentacosta, President of JT Public Relations
Joe Trentacosta, President

In good company

Clients have been featured in

  • ABC NY
  • AFP
  • AM NY
  • American Theatre Magazine
  • Amsterdam News
  • Associated Press
  • BBC
  • Bergen Record
  • Bethenny
  • Bloomberg TV
  • Boston Globe
  • Boston Herald
  • CBS NY
  • CBS Early Show
  • CBS Sunday Morning
  • Charlie Rose
  • Chicago Tribune
  • CNBC
  • CNN
  • Craig Ferguson
  • David Letterman
  • Ebony
  • El Diario
  • El Globo
  • Ellen
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Essence
  • Fox News
  • Good Day LA
  • Good Day NY
  • Good Day Philly
  • Good Morning America
  • Harper’s Bazaar
  • HDNet TV
  • Highlights
  • Home News Tribune
  • Jet Magazine
  • LA Times
  • Life and Style
  • LIVE with Kelly and Michael
  • LIVE with Regis and Kelly
  • Metro
  • MSNBC
  • New York
  • New York Beacon
  • New York Daily News
  • New York Observer
  • New York Post
  • New York Times
  • New Yorker
  • Newsday
  • NY Press
  • NY1
  • NPR
  • Nylon
  • OK Magazine
  • Oprah Winfrey Show
  • Paper Mag
  • Parade
  • People
  • Queen Latifah Show
  • Readers Digest
  • Reuters
  • Rolling Stone
  • Sherri
  • Star Ledger
  • Steve Harvey Show
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • The View
  • Time
  • Time Out London
  • Time Out NY
  • Today Show
  • US Weekly
  • USA Today
  • Vanity Fair
  • Variety
  • Village Voice
  • Vogue
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Washington Post
  • WNYC
  • WPIX

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