Company Profile
Helene Davis Public Relations is committed to providing comprehensive, personalized service to a select number of cultural clients from both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Helene’s areas of expertise include dance and theater promotion and publicity, institutional identity and strategic planning, benefit and gala promotion as well as providing counsel on audience and market research and advertising. She has developed long-standing, established relationships with editors, writers and producers in print, web and broadcast media.
Helene has extensive experience and expertise in promoting and marketing not-for-profit institutions. She has enthusiastically promoted dance, theater, jazz events, classical music, building openings and literature and book readings. Current and former clients include New York City Center and its acclaimed Fall for Dance Festival and award-winning Encores! series, American Dance Machine for the 21st Century, BalletCollective, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Australian Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Diana Vishneyva: Beauty in Motion, Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for several seasons, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for eight years, and promoted the ground breaking and opening of the Ailey’s new home, the Joan Weill Center for Dance.
Helene Davis Public Relations has generated key international, North American, and regional publicity placements for its clients, in a range of print and new media outlets including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The London Times, USA Today and Associated Press. The firm has a proven track record securing coverage on major television, radio and cable programs such as The Today Show, Good Morning, America, The View, Regis & Kelly, CBS Sunday Morning, Charlie Rose, various radio shows on NPR including ‘All Things Considered” “Fresh Air” and “BBC America,” as well as placement on websites, in travel magazines and all major United States regional newspapers, radio and television stations.
Celebrity interviews have included print and television appearances for Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sean Hayes, Jane Krakowski, Christopher Wheeldon, Edward Villella, Rosie O’Donnell, Joseph Stein, Judith Jamison, Tyne Daly, Shen Wei, Charles Aznavour, Sandy Duncan and many others.