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MAYA PR has repped Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Renee Taylor, Joe Bologna & Nanette Fabray; the multi-award winning Jelly Roll! starring Vernel Bagneris;  Edge starring Angelica Page as Sylvia Plath (NY & London); Third Eye Rep’s acclaimed Godspell (with Barrett Foa, Leslie Kritzer, Capathia Jenkins, Chad Kimball & Shoshana Bean), the award-winning Christmas with the Crawfords & 2005’s A Broadway Diva Christmas (with Maya Days, Christine Pedi,  Kathy  Brier,  Marla Schaffel &  Ellen Green); RENDEZVOUS: An Evening with Piaf, Brel, Aznavour & Friends (Creative Minds Productions); White's Lies (with Betty Buckley, Peter Scolari, Tuc Watkins & Christy Carlson Romano); actors  Geri  Jewell (“Deadwood”),  BarBara Luna (“Star Trek”) France Nuyen (Joy Luck Club), Sal Richards (Out for Justice, “The Sopranos”), Karen Lynn Gorney (Saturday Night Fever, “The Sopranos,” "All My Children"); Kathy Garver (“Family Affair”);  actor/singer Franc D’Ambrosio (Phantom of the Opera, The Godfather, Part III);  singers Gennifer Flowers, Rena Strober & singer/songwriter Kevin Ray; comedian & radio host Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling; theatre companies Gorilla Rep, Barefoot Theatre Company; Take Wing And Soar Productions & East 3rd Productions; The League of Professional Theatre Women; Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (Founding Charter Member); Big Apple Comic Con & the films Stop, Creating Karma, The Big Gay Musical & An Affirmative Act.

In addition to representing theatre, cabaret, jazz & comedy in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami & London, MAYA PR has had a presence in Atlantic City for over 20 years, beginning with Jamie deRoy, Sal Richards, Julie Budd, Marilyn Michaels, Legends on Ice: Ice Fusion & Ferco's Untamed Illusions & musical comedian/impressionist Stephen Sorrentino. 

MAYA PR was the press rep for The Duplex, during the comedy boom of the mid '80s. Among the comics who received their first major reviews at the Duplex are Ray Romano, Joy Behar, Mario Cantone, Larry David, Gilbert Gottfried, Susie Essman & Carol Liefer, to name a few. She did the PR for the 35th Anniversary of the Duplex & was asked to return to rep their 50th Anniversary. For that, she brought Joan Rivers back to the club where her career began. To this day, Joan still performs regularly in New York City.

PENNY M. LANDAU saw her first Broadway show, West Side Story, when she was 9 years old. Since then, she has performed, stage managed, directed, teched, taught and, for the last 27 years, run her own PR firm, Maya Public Relations. She was introduced to the world of PR by Long Island legend & former New York Daily Mirror editor, Sam Sesskin, then head of public relations for Nassau Community College, while she was working her way through college. Her first major PR job was with another legend, John Scanlon, on Richard Brooks' film Wrong Is Right, with Sean Connery & Robert Conrad. With the Jacksina Company, she repped Grand Hotel, the musical (with John Schneider), Will Rogers Follies (with Keith Carradine) & the touring companies of Grand Hotel, Bye Bye Birdie (with Tommy Tune & Ann Reinking), The Baby Dance (with Stephanie Zimbalist & Linda Purl) & The Ridiculous Theatrical Company.  With FLT, she repped David Zippel's It's Better With A Band (Scott Bakula, Nancy LaMott, Jenifer Lewis & Catherine Cox), Tallulah (starring Helen Gallagher), Night Club Confidential (with both Fay DeWitt & Eileen Fulton) & John Ford Noonan's All She Cares About is the Yankees, as well as The First All Children's Theatre, Theater of the Open Eye, The American Center for Stanislavsky Theatre Art & the Sonia Moore Studio.
 
As a stage manager, she is proud to have been the original PSM for Torch Song Trilogy with Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, Estelle Getty & Joel Crothers. She is also proud to have stage managed Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June, for the venerable Equity Library Theatre. She was a member of the original Stage Managers Association & is fondly remembered for hawking Moon Pies & Goo-Goo Clusters dressed in a waitress uniform, in the audience of the Broadway show Pump Boys & Dinettes.
 
Penny has served on the Board of Directors of The League of Professional Theatre Women as Vice-President of Communications, is a Founding Charter Member of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, President of Lucky Penny Productions, Inc. (Associate Producer of Edge, starring Angelica Page as Sylvia Plath) & President of EMP Theatricals, LLC (Producer of Now That She's Gone,  in both Los Angeles & New York).  She is also the Executive Producer of the film An Affirmative Act, the first courtroom drama about Gay marriage. She holds a BS in English Lit & Poetry from Bowling Green University, an MA in Theatre History & Criticism from Brooklyn College & a PhD from Bowling Green in 19th Century American Theatre History. She has taught theatre at Bowling Green University, Montclair State University, University of New Hampshire & Kingsborough Community College, as well as Special Education in public Schools in both New York & New Hampshire. She is published both professionally & academically & is currently the Executive Editor of NiteLifeExchange.com, a website dedicated to Arts & Entertainment & is the columnist known to all as "The TV Junkie."