I was in studio on WICC 600 AM Monday, June 12th with host Tony Reno to recap Broadway’s 2017 Tony Awards. Here is the full interview that aired. Enjoy!:
My Recap of the 2017 Tony Awards on WICC 600 AM
Author: Ed Katz
Ed Katz is Managing Principal at Katnip Marketing, LLC, a marketing and media consultancy he founded in 2008 which works within the arts, B2B, B2C, entertainment, government, healthcare, media, non-profit, retail and professional services sectors. At Katnip, Ed’s award-winning work has boosted sales and enhanced the reputation and brand awareness for his clients, including many in the arts. Ed has boosted the online presence and obtained interviews and feature articles for his clients in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Vanity Fair as well as numerous television, radio and print plus digital and social media nationally, regionally and locally. In 2014, Katnip Marketing won the Best Marketing Consultants Award from Best of Westport.
Prior to starting Katnip, Mr. Katz was a founding principal at one of the Hartford & New Haven, CT market's largest full-service advertising and public relations agencies. During his 15+ years there Ed and his creative, PR and media teams won over 100 industry awards. He has been interviewed on various media, business and advertising issues by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, MSNBC, Adweek, Mediaweek, PR News, The Hartford Courant, The New Haven Register, WFSB-TV 3 (CBS), WVIT-TV 30 (NBC), WTNH-TV 8 (ABC) and several newspapers and radio stations.
On the arts side, Mr. Katz's reviews appear on WICC 600 AM radio, in Bridgeport, CT as well as the Applause Theatre and Ticket Service site, in New York City and the KatzReviews Facebook page.
He has written a musical play that is in discussions with a popular rock group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also on the producing team for “The King’s Speech”- the play- which is planning a run on Broadway. And he produced an award-winning sci-fi rock musical comedy, “Save the Robots.”
Ed served four-and-a-half years on the Board of the Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport, a 1450-seat, Broadway-style theater which also operates a tuition-free, after school arts program for Bridgeport's inner-city students.
Mr. Katz graduated from Syracuse University with a dual major in Marketing from the Whitman School of Management and Film from the Newhouse School of Communications. Ed resides with his wife, son, daughter and their dog, Max, in Westport, Connecticut.