KIM REED
Principal and Co-Founder
Kim Reed is an award-winning entertainment PR veteran whose career has spanned more than three
dozen years of advertising, publicity and promotion experience at several of Hollywood's leading film
studios, the world's largest public relations firm, the leading broadcast and cable television network and
even his own independent PR shop. During his distinguished career, Reed has handled publicity for more
than 60 theatrical and television movies and 40 television series, opened the most expensive stage play
in the history of the legitimate theatre and launched one of Los Angeles’ most successful entertainment,
dining and shopping promenades, among numerous other accomplishments.
Reed most recently headed up the West Coast publicity office of USA Network, the premier basic cable
network consistently setting new viewing records. He also wore several hats at NBC Universal
Television, a sister company of USA Network under the GE parental banner, where he handled publicity
for the network’s marketing group and The NBC Agency, the company’s in-house full-service advertising
agency.
Further, Reed was responsible for awards administration for all television business units of NBC
Universal and served as editor of the network’s highly acclaimed press information website, NBC Media
Village (www.nbcumv.com). Prior to the acquisition of Vivendi Universal in May, 2004, Reed headed up
NBC’s photography and new media departments as well as supervising all aspects of Media Village since
December, 2000.
Reed began his NBC stint as publicity supervisor of NBC's Saturday morning programming line-up and
also handled the network’s marketing communications, its interactive PR activities on the Internet and
worldwide publicity for NBC Enterprises and NBC International.
Prior to joining NBC in 1995, Reed served as Vice President and Managing Director in the Los Angeles
office of Burson-Marsteller where he ran the entertainment practice group. His accounts consisted of
such diverse activities as the premiere of the MGM Grand Hotel's "EFX" in Las Vegas, the pre-opening
media blitz for BB King's Blues Club at Universal CityWalk, the Castle Rock feature film "Little Big
League," an institutional video about Alzheimer's Disease narrated on camera by Jack Lemmon, several
television shows including the return of "Cagney and Lacey" to the small screen, and much more.
In 1986, Reed joined MGM Worldwide Television Group where he served for six years as Vice President of
Advertising, Publicity and Promotion handling both first-run syndication and network programming on
such series as "THIRTYSOMETHING," "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT," "THE YOUNG RIDERS," "DARK
SHADOWS" and numerous movies made for television.
In a departure from traditional entertainment PR work, Reed set up his own PR shop and single-handedly
created and implemented the launch campaign for UNIVERSAL CITYWALK, L.A.'s trendy entertainment,
dining and shopping promenade located atop the entertainment hill above Universal City Studios. He was
honored by the Publicity Club of Los Angeles with an Award of Excellence trophy at the 1994 Pro Awards.
A graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from California State University, Northridge, Reed
did a tour of duty as an NBC page but actually began his career as a junior publicist for Universal Studios
in 1972 working in both the motion picture and television divisions on such long-running series as "ADAM-
12" and "EMERGENCY" and such hit motion pictures as "THE STING," "AMERICAN GRAFFITI,"
"EARTHQUAKE" and "JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR,” among others. A three-month project working with
the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock on behalf of the film, "FRENZY," resulted in a sell-out
retrospective to Mr. Hitchcock's career at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 1974, Reed joined Columbia Pictures Television as a senior publicist and was promoted to manager of
publicity and promotion. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Reed held various management positions with Lorimar
Productions and Twentieth Century-Fox, working on such major films as "RETURN OF THE JEDI,"
"SILKWOOD" and "MR. MOM" and such long-running hit TV series as "DALLAS," "KNOTS LANDING,"
"FALCON CREST," "EIGHT IS ENOUGH" and "THE WALTONS."
When he isn't in the office, Reed can be found on the tennis court where he has serious delusions of
grandeur about playing in the U.S. Open. His other passion is teaching Writing for Public Relations and
Television Publicity at UCLA Extension. Mr. Reed is single and resides with Henry and Madison, the
destructo cats from Hell, in Westlake Village, Calif.
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KAREN DOUGLASS
Principal and Co-Founder
Karen Douglass is a television production triple threat having worked as a director, casting associate and
production coordinator on numerous independent and network shows.
While attending classes at UCLA Extension in 1980, instructor and television director Alexander Singer
chose Douglass as his directing protégé. During her time with Singer, she worked on such series as
“Knots Landing,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Remington Steele” and “Hill St. Blues.” She segued to casting and
remained with the “Cagney & Lacey” production team as an assistant in extras casting until the show
went off the air.
Following her stint in casting, Douglass moved on to directing several independent commercials and
short films. In 1988 she opened her own production company, Stargazer Productions, in Las Vegas, but
returned to Los Angeles to work at Andrew Solt Productions on the video projects “25 X 5,” “The
Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones,” "Elvis - Greatest Performances Volumes I & II" and "The Ed
Sullivan Show Re-cut.”
Desiring to work in live television, Douglass switched gears to work on the 1990 Goodwill Games in
Seattle, Washington. She was later promoted from logging the live show for Ted Turner to assistant
segment producer for special segments and end credits.
In 1991, Douglass joined Bette Midler’s Miss M Productions and worked as Midler’s personal assistant
during the filming of "For The Boys." She also worked for Midler on the Grammy Award-nominated
soundtrack of "For the Boys," concurrent with Midler’s Academy Award nomination and campaign, as
well as the movies "Hocus Pocus," "Gypsy" and the "Experience the Divine" United States tour.
Following the tour, Douglass became director of Midler’s private charitable foundation.
In 1997, Douglass joined NBC Studios (now Universal Media Studios) as Coordinator Production on such
longform projects as “Atomic Train,” “Y2K,” “Revelations,” “David Cassidy, In His Life,” “The John Lennon
Story,” “Muppet Christmas,” “Port Chicago” and “Saving Jessica Lynch.” Her series work includes
“American Dreams,” “Providence,” “Heist,” “Hawaii,” “Kingpin,” “Leap of Faith,” “Book of Daniel,” “The
Black Donnellys," 'Heroes” and the nine-time Emmy nominated series "The Starter Wife." Her pilot work
includes “Crossing Jordan,” “NoTORIous,” “EDNY,” “Expendables,” “St. Georges Island” and “Young
Arthur.”
A single mother of daughter Shawnee, Douglass’ passion is showing and breeding miniature horses. She
currently owns nine minis and a thoroughbred colt in training to be a race horse as well as too many
Chihuahuas to count in Shadow Hills, California.
***
Principal and Co-Founder
Kim Reed is an award-winning entertainment PR veteran whose career has spanned more than three
dozen years of advertising, publicity and promotion experience at several of Hollywood's leading film
studios, the world's largest public relations firm, the leading broadcast and cable television network and
even his own independent PR shop. During his distinguished career, Reed has handled publicity for more
than 60 theatrical and television movies and 40 television series, opened the most expensive stage play
in the history of the legitimate theatre and launched one of Los Angeles’ most successful entertainment,
dining and shopping promenades, among numerous other accomplishments.
Reed most recently headed up the West Coast publicity office of USA Network, the premier basic cable
network consistently setting new viewing records. He also wore several hats at NBC Universal
Television, a sister company of USA Network under the GE parental banner, where he handled publicity
for the network’s marketing group and The NBC Agency, the company’s in-house full-service advertising
agency.
Further, Reed was responsible for awards administration for all television business units of NBC
Universal and served as editor of the network’s highly acclaimed press information website, NBC Media
Village (www.nbcumv.com). Prior to the acquisition of Vivendi Universal in May, 2004, Reed headed up
NBC’s photography and new media departments as well as supervising all aspects of Media Village since
December, 2000.
Reed began his NBC stint as publicity supervisor of NBC's Saturday morning programming line-up and
also handled the network’s marketing communications, its interactive PR activities on the Internet and
worldwide publicity for NBC Enterprises and NBC International.
Prior to joining NBC in 1995, Reed served as Vice President and Managing Director in the Los Angeles
office of Burson-Marsteller where he ran the entertainment practice group. His accounts consisted of
such diverse activities as the premiere of the MGM Grand Hotel's "EFX" in Las Vegas, the pre-opening
media blitz for BB King's Blues Club at Universal CityWalk, the Castle Rock feature film "Little Big
League," an institutional video about Alzheimer's Disease narrated on camera by Jack Lemmon, several
television shows including the return of "Cagney and Lacey" to the small screen, and much more.
In 1986, Reed joined MGM Worldwide Television Group where he served for six years as Vice President of
Advertising, Publicity and Promotion handling both first-run syndication and network programming on
such series as "THIRTYSOMETHING," "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT," "THE YOUNG RIDERS," "DARK
SHADOWS" and numerous movies made for television.
In a departure from traditional entertainment PR work, Reed set up his own PR shop and single-handedly
created and implemented the launch campaign for UNIVERSAL CITYWALK, L.A.'s trendy entertainment,
dining and shopping promenade located atop the entertainment hill above Universal City Studios. He was
honored by the Publicity Club of Los Angeles with an Award of Excellence trophy at the 1994 Pro Awards.
A graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from California State University, Northridge, Reed
did a tour of duty as an NBC page but actually began his career as a junior publicist for Universal Studios
in 1972 working in both the motion picture and television divisions on such long-running series as "ADAM-
12" and "EMERGENCY" and such hit motion pictures as "THE STING," "AMERICAN GRAFFITI,"
"EARTHQUAKE" and "JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR,” among others. A three-month project working with
the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock on behalf of the film, "FRENZY," resulted in a sell-out
retrospective to Mr. Hitchcock's career at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 1974, Reed joined Columbia Pictures Television as a senior publicist and was promoted to manager of
publicity and promotion. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Reed held various management positions with Lorimar
Productions and Twentieth Century-Fox, working on such major films as "RETURN OF THE JEDI,"
"SILKWOOD" and "MR. MOM" and such long-running hit TV series as "DALLAS," "KNOTS LANDING,"
"FALCON CREST," "EIGHT IS ENOUGH" and "THE WALTONS."
When he isn't in the office, Reed can be found on the tennis court where he has serious delusions of
grandeur about playing in the U.S. Open. His other passion is teaching Writing for Public Relations and
Television Publicity at UCLA Extension. Mr. Reed is single and resides with Henry and Madison, the
destructo cats from Hell, in Westlake Village, Calif.
***
KAREN DOUGLASS
Principal and Co-Founder
Karen Douglass is a television production triple threat having worked as a director, casting associate and
production coordinator on numerous independent and network shows.
While attending classes at UCLA Extension in 1980, instructor and television director Alexander Singer
chose Douglass as his directing protégé. During her time with Singer, she worked on such series as
“Knots Landing,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Remington Steele” and “Hill St. Blues.” She segued to casting and
remained with the “Cagney & Lacey” production team as an assistant in extras casting until the show
went off the air.
Following her stint in casting, Douglass moved on to directing several independent commercials and
short films. In 1988 she opened her own production company, Stargazer Productions, in Las Vegas, but
returned to Los Angeles to work at Andrew Solt Productions on the video projects “25 X 5,” “The
Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones,” "Elvis - Greatest Performances Volumes I & II" and "The Ed
Sullivan Show Re-cut.”
Desiring to work in live television, Douglass switched gears to work on the 1990 Goodwill Games in
Seattle, Washington. She was later promoted from logging the live show for Ted Turner to assistant
segment producer for special segments and end credits.
In 1991, Douglass joined Bette Midler’s Miss M Productions and worked as Midler’s personal assistant
during the filming of "For The Boys." She also worked for Midler on the Grammy Award-nominated
soundtrack of "For the Boys," concurrent with Midler’s Academy Award nomination and campaign, as
well as the movies "Hocus Pocus," "Gypsy" and the "Experience the Divine" United States tour.
Following the tour, Douglass became director of Midler’s private charitable foundation.
In 1997, Douglass joined NBC Studios (now Universal Media Studios) as Coordinator Production on such
longform projects as “Atomic Train,” “Y2K,” “Revelations,” “David Cassidy, In His Life,” “The John Lennon
Story,” “Muppet Christmas,” “Port Chicago” and “Saving Jessica Lynch.” Her series work includes
“American Dreams,” “Providence,” “Heist,” “Hawaii,” “Kingpin,” “Leap of Faith,” “Book of Daniel,” “The
Black Donnellys," 'Heroes” and the nine-time Emmy nominated series "The Starter Wife." Her pilot work
includes “Crossing Jordan,” “NoTORIous,” “EDNY,” “Expendables,” “St. Georges Island” and “Young
Arthur.”
A single mother of daughter Shawnee, Douglass’ passion is showing and breeding miniature horses. She
currently owns nine minis and a thoroughbred colt in training to be a race horse as well as too many
Chihuahuas to count in Shadow Hills, California.
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