QCC to Offer Entertainment Publicity Course

Queensborough Community College’s Continuing Education Department is offering a 5-session class entitled, “Publicity for Theater and Entertainment Arts,” in which a professional publicist will take students behind the headlines generated by a fast-growing profession.

The 5 session class, which will meet from 7:45–9:45 p.m. on Tuesdays from November 19 through December 17, will cover topics such as how to mount a media campaign, how to prepare a media kit and how to write a press release.

Susan Chicoine–Barrow, from Springer /Chicoine Public Relations, has been a professional Broadway press agent for over twenty years. Springer/Chicoine has represented theater companies, film festivals and actors such as Al Pacino, Mia Farrow, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor.

The cost of the course is $100. For more information, call the Office of Continuing Education at (718) 631-6343.#