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Miller Wright & Associates, the New York-based media relations and management firm, represents Pulitzer Prize winning writers, Academy Award winning actors, Emmy Award winning actresses, Grammy Award winning musicians and Tony Award winning composers. Miller Wright has worked in the entertainment industry as a producer, publicist and personal manager since 1986. He has handled the national publicity and marketing campaigns for well over 100 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including Contact (2000 Tony Award), Twelfth Night with Helen Hunt, Little Foxes with Stockard Channing, Gypsy with Tyne Daly, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner, The Threepenny Opera with Sting and all 50 national and international companies of Forever Plaid. He also worked on the publicity and media promotions for the 2001 Tony Awards. He created and executed personal publicity and media campaigns for Liza Minnelli, Frank McCourt, Michael Feinstein, Wynton Marsalis, Sigourney Weaver, Audra McDonald, Susan Stroman, Elaine Stritch, Hal Prince, Cy Coleman, Ellen Burstyn, Allison Janney and Rosemary Clooney, among others. Miller has produced television segments for NBC's "Today Show," "Good Morning America," "Larry King Live," "Charlie Rose," "The Rosie O' Donnell Show," "Live with Regis and Kelly," "Late Show with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show" and "Live From Lincoln Center." He helped develop the Broadway production of Swing! starring Ann Hampton Callaway whom he has represented and managed in all aspects of her career for over 15 years. He formed Miller Wright & Associates in 2001, to focus on live entertainment, the music industry and personal management. The company represents the nightclub Feinstein's at the Regency, heralded as "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution by The New York Post, presenting major TV names like Tony Danza, Susan Lucci and Danny Aiello; jazz stars like Cleo Laine, George Shearing and Keely Smith; Broadway royalty like Chita Rivera, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Patti LuPone; and pop/country stars like Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle and Jimmy Webb. The company represented the 2005 Harold Arlen Centennial, the year-long celebration of the composer of "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," "That Old Black Magic" and many other pop standards. Events and exhibitions were held at venues like Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and The Library of Congress. Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett served among the celebration's honorary chairs. The recent recording the company has publicized include the premiere release of Sondheim Sings, the private home demos of the legendary composer Stephen Sondheim; the debut solo CD by "Will & Grace" TV star Megan Mullally; the first jazz recording by Grammy Award winning singer Rita Coolidge; Las Vegas icon Keely Smith's tribute to the bandleader Count Basie; the latest CD from jazz singer Stacey Kent; the launch of the debut CD from jazz singer Peter Cincotti; and the first theatre CD by 80s pop star Deborah Gibson. The company has represented the national release of cast recordings such as Nine with Antonio Banderas and Jane Krakowski; Fiddler on the Roof with Alfred Molina; The Frogs with Nathan Lane; Michel Legrand's Amour; and Zanna, Don't! with Jai Rodriguez from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Current and recent clients include Darlene Love, star of movies, records and Broadway's Hairspray; Felicia P. Fields, star of Oprah Winfrey's Broadway production of The Color Purple; Maria Friedman, Broadway star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman In White; acclaimed concert artist Maude Maggart; jazz sensation Tony DeSare; Peter Nero & The Philly Pops, The Johnny Mercer Foundation, the British musical comedy trio Fascinating Aida, and jazz pianist/vocalist Barbara Carroll. The company works with several Grammy Award winning record labels including Sony Classical, Verve, Concord and Telarc. The company represents internationally recognized jazz singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli, and his new CD tribute to Frank Sinatra, "Dear Mr. Sinatra," while also co-producing his nationally syndicated radio program "Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli."