TPEC Reveals Winners For Inaugural TV Publicity Campaign Competition; Late Howard Bragman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
TPEC has announced the winners of its inaugural television publicity campaign competition along with the recipient of the Ben Halpern Lifetime Achievement Award.
The new television publicity campaign competition accepted submissions across nearly every genre and platform to recognize excellence for all programming publicity campaigns. The late Howard Bragman was also awarded the Ben Halpern Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication and career in publicity. Bragman died in February at the age of 66. Halpern was one of the founders of TPEC.
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A celebration honoring the winners will be announced at a later date.
“All these winners exemplify the creativity, hard work and relentless dedication to raising awareness of the exciting content available to viewers,” said TPEC Co-Chairs Dustin Smith and Wendy Zocks in a statement. “These awards extend TPEC’s mission to elevate and celebrate our talented members behind these publicity campaigns. In addition, we are honored to present our first Lifetime Achievement Award to Howard Bragman, whose legacy transcends television to include impactfully helping the LGBTQ+ community.”
The winners of the 2023 TPEC Awards are:
Outstanding Campaign for an Animated Series: The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, Disney+
Chris Albert – Disney Branded Television Publicity
Morgan Di Stefano – Disney Branded Television Publicity
Cecilia Johnson – Disney Branded Television Publicity
Carol Kirksey – Disney Branded Television Publicity
Steven Beydler – Disney Branded Television Publicity
Outstanding Campaign for a Children’s Series: Gabby’s Dollhouse, DreamWorks Animation
Courtenay Palaski – DreamWorks Animation
Seth Fowler – DreamWorks Animation
Aashna Moitra Serrao – DreamWorks Animation
Katelyn Gearan – DreamWorks Animation
Nayiri Nazarian – DreamWorks Animation
Outstanding Campaign for a New Comedy: The Bear, FX/Hulu
Kristy Silvernail – FX
Zoe Raynor – FX
Justin Sutton – FX
Outstanding Campaign for a New Drama: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon Studios
Courtney Brown – Amazon Studios
Ellen Hughes – Amazon Studios
Derek Schauer – Amazon Studios
Holly Ollis – Amazon Studios
Ali Branch – Amazon Studios
Lorenzo Grajales – Amazon Studios
Lyndsey Miller – Amazon Studios
Mike Costello – Amazon Studios
Cooper Hagedorn – Amazon Studios
Taylor Kane – Amazon Studios
Maha Samad – Amazon Studios
Nick Gregorio – Amazon Studios
Outstanding Campaign for a New Unscripted Series: Welcome to Wrexham, FX
Robyn Harney – FX
Roslyn Bibby – FX
Zoe Raynor – FX
Steve Brener – BZA PR
Alyssa Hankins – BZA PR
Outstanding Campaign for a Returning Comedy: Abbott Elementary, Warner Bros. Television/ 20th Television/ABC
Grace Park – Warner Bros. Television Publicity
Celia Sacks – Warner Bros. Television Publicity
Sarah Teicher – Warner Bros. Television Publicity
Nicole Crawford – Disney Television Studios/20th Television Awards
Rachel Villegas – ABC Publicity
Michaela Zukowski – ABC Publicity
Outstanding Campaign for a Returning Drama: This Is Us, 20th Television/ NBC
Chris Kaspers – Disney Television Studios/20th Television Studios
Natalia Desrosiers – NBC
Outstanding Campaign for a Returning Unscripted Series: RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars, Paramount+
Michael Fabiani – MTV Entertainment Studios
Patrick Santiago – MTV Entertainment Studios
Justin Permenter – MTV Entertainment Studios
Mariana Garces – MTV Entertainment Studios
Brian Bahr – Paramount+
Joe Regan – Paramount+
Outstanding Multicultural Campaign: La Reina del Sur, Telemundo/NBC
Claudia Franklin – Telemundo
Adriana Nunez-Cox – Telemundo
Etienne Hernandez-Medina – H+M Communications
Jennifer Beccera – H+M Communications
Aimee Thompson – H+M Communications
Daniella Villegas – H+M Communications
Samantha Moore – H+M Communications
Ana Lucia Bustamante – H+M Communications
Emily Bruno – H+M Communications
Maria Cardona – H+M Communications
Alexandra Correa Crespo – H+M Communications
Outstanding Campaign for a Docuseries/Docu-special: Limitless With Chris Hemsworth – Disney+/National Geographic
Chris Albert – National Geographic
Jennifer DeGuzman – National Geographic
Jennifer Driscoll – National Geographic
Nadia Aziz – National Geographic
Outstanding Campaign for a Television Movie, Limited or Anthology Series: The Dropout, 20th Television/Hulu
Shari Rosenblum – Disney Television Studios/20th Television
Lauren Burnett – Hulu
The TPEC Award committee conducted this year’s judgingt. The committee also considered work that embraced diversity and inclusion, overcame unexpected roadblocks and ultimately achieved press hits that met the goals and strategies. The committee was comprised of:
Ryan Aguirre, Searchlight/ Freelance
Gabriella Alaimo, Sony Pictures Television
Brian Eley, Crunchyroll
Kristen J. Hall, CBS Studios
Ryan McCormick, NBCUniversal
Amy Prenner, The Prenner Group
Shari Rosenblum, Disney Television Studios
Aashna Moitra Serrao, DreamWorks Animation
Dustin Smith, SMITHHOUSE
Lakeitcha Thomas, Disney Television Studios
Lynn Weiss, SMITHHOUSE
Wendy Zocks, Wendy Zocks PR
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