The principals of WKT PR are Annett Wolf, Lisa Kasteler and Cara Tripicchio. Annett and Lisa are both long-time publicist who began their careers at PMK and Solters/Roskin/Friedman respectively. Annett started the company in 1989 and Lisa joined her two years later to form Wolf-Kasteler. In 1996, Wolf and Kasteler opened the New York office in addition to the headquarters in Beverly Hills.

Cara began her career at the agency at an entry-level position in 1997 and was named partner in January 2008. Her client roster includes Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Ashley Judd.

Evelyn Karamanos joined the company in 1998 and was promoted to publicist in 2000. In early 2008, Evelyn was named Senior Vice President. Her client roster includes January Jones, Amanda Seyfried, Kiefer Sutherland, and Channing Tatum. Jessica Kolstad was named Vice President in early 2008 and has been with WKT since 2000. Among her clients are Elizabeth Banks, Colin Firth, Felicity Huffman, Mark Ruffalo and Nicolas Hoult.

Managing our New York office for the past 5 years Nicole Caruso, Vice President joined the company in 2004. Through her experience in managing the NY office, and her contribution to the company in a management position, Nicole has been able to maintain and sign the level of prestigious clients the company began with. Overseeing a staff of 7, the New York office has been in existence for over 10 years. Nicole Caruso’s client roster includes; Carey Mulligan, Ashley Olsen, Jason Sudeikis, Kate Walsh, Mary-Kate Olsen and Josh Lucas among others.

In 20 years, we have made our mark as a powerful agency with an extraordinary list of clients from all facets of the entertainment industry. The agency represents a number of established actors as well as up and coming talent including Kim Basinger, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cage, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Chace Crawford, Cindy Crawford, John Cusack, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Hudson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Evangeline Lilly, Debra Messing, Mary-Kate Olsen & Ashley Olsen, Matthew Perry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Quaid, Ted Danson, Tina Fey, Adrianne Palicki, Ashley Judd, Tom Selleck and Mia Wasikowska, to name a few.

We have maintained strong relationships with many of the clients for over 15 years. Many of them were not familiar faces when we began to represent them and we take great pride in having built their worldwide fame. In addition to handling all domestic publicity on their behalf, we are also very involved in building international campaigns for them.

Our job is now done on a global scale and we are involved in all facets of a client’s image. New media has created many opportunities that were not available before and we have to meticulously and strategically take advantage of them. WKT PR is known for its honest, thorough and savvy representation of talent and filmmakers. We carry that same service to the corporate accounts that we carefully select.

In addition to actors, we have diversified the company over the years by expanding our expertise to encompass such talent and organization as: American Oceans Campaigns/Oceans; Adopt a Minefield; Project ALS Dinner; the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Oxfam Americ; Advertising Agency Benenson Janson and their work with Planned Parenthood; Brillstein Grey, producer/manager Brad Grey, Production Company Plan B as well as serving as media consultants to Brad Grey and Paramount Pictures; Festival of Children; record label IronWorks started by actor Kiefer Sutherland; director Jon Turtletaub; New York based Amnesty International; The End Hunger Network; BB King’s 80th Birthday Party; Nicolas Cage’s production company Saturn Films; Ilene Chaiken, the creator of Showtime’s series “The L Word”; David Friendly for the release of “Little Miss Sunshine”; Don Mischer Productions; Producer Mark Sennet; unit publicity on the Saturn Films/Nicolas Cage directed film “Sonny”; unit publicity on the Mark Ruffalo directed film “Sympathy for Delicious” and the unit publicity for Emilio Estevez’s directed film “Bobby”; charity Operation Smile; Miss America Pageant; Spirit of Women; The Christopher Reeve Foundation; spearheaded the publicity on behalf of Ashley Judd for her commitment as Global Ambassador to YoungAids and the skincare/cosmetic’s line American Beauty for which she is the spokespersons; the online company Estyle.com and babystyle.com for which Cindy Crawford was a business advisor, Cindy Crawford Home; The W Hotel Group; UNICEF for which Tea Leoni serves as an Ambassador; The W Hotel Group; Vintage LA event on behalf of the Salvation Army.