ABOUT

R Entertainment is a national events booking, marketing and production company. R Entertainment books, produces and markets more than 200 events a year -- from American Expresses Chairman’s events, Toby Keith, Jamie Foxx, and Queen + Paul Rodgers worldwide tour, to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orange County Choppers tours. R Entertainment is a full-scale agency offering marketing -- online and offline -- sponsorship sales, public relations, artist’s representation and production.

R Entertainment Company is lead by Reed Glick a thirty year R Entertainment insider, Kerry Dunne, a thirty year special events producer, Michelle Donovan, an eight year booking specialist, and Tabitha Alexander, a two year event coordinator.

Reed Glick

R Entertainment founder Reed Glick is a 30 year entertainment industry veteran who launched his career in Southern California as the “fourth guy on the lighting crew.” Mr. Glick’s experience covers the spectrum of the live performance entertainment industry spanning a variety of venues, genres and capacities -- from stage manager, production manager, tour manager and accountant to artist management, producer, venue manager, promoter, talent buyer and consultant.

Mr. Glick quickly demonstrated an instinct for the entertainment business, rapidly moving up the ranks. His stints as stage manager have included such tours as Robert Plant’s North American Tour, The Who World Tour and the Amnesty International World Tour with Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Peter Gabriel. Mr. Glick also served as stage manager for Peter Gabriel’s World Tour and production manager for a number of others. The tour veteran has managed concert tours by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and Clash of the Titans featuring Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. He served as international tour manager for the Vans Warped Tour overseeing a traveling crew of 300 for two tours in the United States, Australia and Japan.

All told, Mr. Glick has worked on more than 100 US and world tours, including 20 European concert tours and trips into South America, Australia and Asia with 20 tours in Japan alone.

        

In 1993, Mr. Glick pursued a new direction in his career and became a partner with Arthur Spivak in Los Angeles, co-managing artists such as Tori Amos, Samiam, Testament and Murmurs. In 1996, he once again followed his passion for live musical performance and joined the venue side of the business, becoming partner and general manager of Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona. He took the venue from bankruptcy to making it one of the top small theatres in the United States averaging more than 150 shows a year. Years later, he pursued arena management and joined the staff of Glendale Arena (Arizona), creating the booking and concert division for the vast facility, making it a major national family show tour stop as well.

Today, Mr. Glick is founder of R Entertainment, which promotes more than 50 shows a year, and provides entertainment programming on behalf of Principal Solutions Group for the Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater, Tucson, Arizona. Under the leadership of Mr. Glick, R Entertainment also serves as entertainment provider for Phoenix-based Global Entertainment’s Chevrolet Center in Youngstown, Ohio; Dodge Arena in Hidalgo, Texas; Rio Rancho Event Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico; and the Prescott Valley Event Center, Prescott Valley, Arizona.

In addition, Mr. Glick serves as consultant on special events and provides corporate entertainment for such clients as American Express, Southwest Airlines and Velocity Sports & Entertainment, among others. He also serves as promoter for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir tour, producer for the Orange County Choppers’ US and overseas tours, the Cesar Chavez Foundation events and concert producer for Citadel Broadcasting.

Through the years, Mr. Glick has been recognized for his contribution to the nonprofit community, receiving the Mayor’s Award and honored with a scholarship named after him by the Wilson Foundation. He’s been recognized by the Chrysalis Nursery as Volunteer of the Year, has served as a member of the board of the Miracle Makers Foundation of Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and has been nationally recognized through the Phoenix chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters with the first-ever Star Award, to name a few.

Kerry Dunne

Mr. Dunne is a marketing and business development professional for business and entertainment enterprises. He has served as president and CEO of sports franchises, as league consultant at the national level and has led a variety of sports marketing and entertainment companies, participating in nearly every facet of the sports and entertainment industry, including sports franchise ownership, league development, corporate sponsorship development, advertising, magazine publishing, national television and radio broadcast sales, and program production. Marketing partnerships, special event production, tour promotion, tour campaigns, and e-marketing are all part of Mr. Dunne’s expertise.

Clients have included Global Entertainment, the PGA, Major League Baseball, FOX Sports Net, Continental Indoor Soccer League, and others. In the entertainment arena, Mr. Dunne has worked with the likes of the McCartney family of Liverpool, England; the Teutuls of Orange County Choppers fame, and with Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame performers. His productions have generated millions of dollars for companies, talent and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Dunne began his sports career with the San Diego Padres’ Friars Club and soon moved to a sports management firm specializing in marketing and event sponsor sales. He later served as marketing director for World Team Tennis teams, and joined the Major Indoor Soccer League as the youngest general manager in professional sports.

With the United States Football League (USFL), Mr. Dunne served in marketing, sponsor development, broadcast sales, and game production. After the USFL, he began his own sports and entertainment marketing firm, representing Major League Baseball teams during Spring Training, generating millions of dollars in revenue through sponsor and media sales, publishing, in-game promotions and ticket sales strategies. In addition, Mr. Dunne produced high-profile events that cover the spectrum -- celebrity golf tournaments, Super Bowl events, music concerts – and created and produced major civic celebrations and festivals that still occur each year.

Mr. Dunne has served in the nonprofit arena as executive director of the East Valley Partnership, an organization dedicated to business development and regional business initiatives within the metropolitan Phoenix area. In this endeavor, he founded the Cox Communications Economic Forum, the Motorola Future Forum and the Southwest Airlines Tourism Forum. To this day, the organization annually presents an award in his honor.