About Jessica Bendell Publicity
Jessica Bendell Publicity is one of Australia’s most highly-respected boutique entertainment publicity agencies specialising in musical theatre.
Jessica Bendell, Director of Jessica Bendell Publicity, has 25-years of wide-ranging experience including senior corporate publicity and communications roles. She led publicity teams at Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Museum and IMAX for 19 years before establishing Jessica Bendell Publicity in 2018 with an aim to create specialised publicity campaigns for Australia’s best-known productions.
Jessica Bendell Publicity has managed the publicity for:
For Suzanne Jones for JONES Theatrical Group - national publicity for Mrs Doubtfire; The Book of Mormon; Pretty Woman; Hadestown; Metaverse of Magic and the national tour of Mrs Doubtfire.
For John Frost for Crossroads Live - National publicity for Hairspray; Grease; Sister Act; Anastasia; And Then There Were None; Cluedo and the upcoming tour of My Fair Lady with Opera Australia. Melbourne publicity for tours of Annie; CATS; Chicago (2024 national tour) and Magic Mike Live.
For Opera Australia – AIDA; Ernani and the upcoming tour of My Fair Lady (with Crossroads Live).
For Michael Cassel Group - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
For StoreyBoard Entertainment - National publicity for tick, tick...BOOM!; CHESS The Musical and the upcoming tour of The Shark is Broken.
For Melbourne Theatre Company – Fun Home; Berlin; The Heartbreak Choir; Admissions; Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and North by Northwest For Opera Australia – AIDA; Ernani and the upcoming tour of My Fair Lady (with Crossroads Live).
For Concertworks - Jekyll & Hyde with Anthony Warlow; Audra McDonald national tours in 2019 and 2024; Ramin Karimloo national tour; Sierra Boggess national tour.
For Arts Centre Melbourne - Calamity Jane (Arts Centre Melbourne in association with Hayes Theatre Co); Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (with Sydney Theatre Company); One Man, Two Guvnors (with National Theatre of Great Britain); Nederlands Dans Theater; Sir
Matthew Bourne’s Lord of the Flies; Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs; Kristen Chenoweth; Lisa Marie Presley; AR Rahman; National Ballet of China; Kate Miller Heidke; Ilana Glazer and exhibitions celebrating the careers of Kylie Minogue, Geoffrey Rush, ACDC and Reg Livermore.