Amanda Pekoe

Amanda Pekoe founded The Pekoe Group in 2009 before the age of 30. She owns 100% of the agency without any investors or partners. The Pekoe Group is an award-winning, innovative, strategic, and creative ad agency with departments in advertising, digital, promotions, social media, websites, video, and design, and has worked with shows such as SIX, Operation Mincemeat, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), The Notebook, Days of Wine and Roses, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Rock of Ages, Oh, Hello On Broadway, SpongeBob SquarePants On Broadway, Eclipsed, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Avenue Q, The Play That Goes Wrong, Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and more. Combined the shows have won over 20 Tony Awards and received more than 50 nominations for Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

In addition to running The Pekoe Group, Amanda teaches the Advertising For Theatre course for the Columbia University MFA Theatre Management and Producing program each Fall semester, and has done so for the past 10 Years.