NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Veteran publicists Alyx Carr, Juliana Plotkin and Whitney Tancred have joined the Talent Division of 42West, a leading public relations and marketing agency for the entertainment industry, and wholly-owned subsidiary of Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLPN).  Carr will be based in New York, with Plotkin and Tancred working out of the agency's Los Angeles office.

"We're always on the lookout for good people, and finding three practitioners with the ability and experience of Alyx, Juliana, and Whitney was an opportunity we couldn't pass up," said 42West Co-CEO Leslee Dart, who heads the firm's Talent Division. "We're thrilled to have them."

Prior to joining 42West, Carr worked at Wolf-Kasteler. Her clients include Alisha Boe, Aldis Hodge, Sara Paxton, Ali Fazal, Jessica Sula, Shawn Hatosy, Bresha Webb, Elvy Yost and Jerrika Hinton.

A music specialist, Plotkin initially made a name for herself at Capitol Records and DreamWorks Records. Most recently, she ran her own firm, JPLA Media, where she assembled a client roster that includes Noah Cyrus, Dinah Jane, LSD, Lil Dicky, and Dounia.

Tancred spent several years at both Rogers & Cowan and Sunshine Sachs, and her clients include Jason Statham, Jesse Williams, James Van Der Beek, Nico Santos, Lauren Ash, Matt Lanter, Jennifer Tilly, Edi Gathegi, Gabriel Mann, and James Lafferty, among others.

About Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.

Dolphin Entertainment is a leading independent entertainment marketing and premium content development company. Through our subsidiaries 42West and The Door, we provide expert strategic marketing and publicity services to many of the top brands, both individual and corporate, in the entertainment and hospitality industries. The Door and 42West are both recognized global leaders in PR services for their respective industries and, in December 2017, the New York Observer listed them, respectively, as the third and fourth most powerful PR firms of any kind in the United States. Dolphin's legacy content production business, founded by Emmy-nominated CEO Bill O'Dowd, has produced multiple feature films and award-winning digital series.

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