press agent
noun
: an agent employed to establish and maintain good public relations through publicity
press-agent
verb
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Phylicia Rashad, who directed Purpose on Broadway, sat in a circular booth chatting with Victoria Clark, a 2023 Tony winner for Kimberly Akimbo, and press agent Irene Gandy.
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
Honoring her personal team, Bates thanked her agent Brian Mann at CAA and press agent Rachel Karten.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 June 2025
Is the campaign being masterminded by a press agent, or was that person laid off?
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
But in New York, there has always been the theater business, as in producers and theater owners and press agents, all squeezed together in the hothouse neighborhood branded Broadway and integral to New York’s international identity since the Roaring ’20s.
—Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
Honoring her personal team, Bates thanked her agent Brian Mann at CAA and press agent Rachel Karten.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 June 2025
Is the campaign being masterminded by a press agent, or was that person laid off?
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
But in New York, there has always been the theater business, as in producers and theater owners and press agents, all squeezed together in the hothouse neighborhood branded Broadway and integral to New York’s international identity since the Roaring ’20s.
—Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Press agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press%20agent. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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