Joy Phillips, Biography

With almost fifteen years of public relations experience in the entertainment field, Joy Phillips is learned in handling publicity, media relations, event planning, and corporate communications for a variety of consumer and media audiences.

Currently a Vice President of Public Relations at AMC Networks, Joy oversees consumer publicity campaigns for a number of television series, most recently Dispatches From Elsewhere, NOS4A2, Lodge 49, Preacher, This Close, and The Terror: Infamy. Her upcoming series include Gangs of London, Pantheon, Kevin Can F Himself, and Mega City Smiths, to name a few. Joy has been with AMC Networks since 2019 and oversees the Los Angeles-based PR team.

Joy started at Rubenstein in 2015 and worked with clients including Color Force, HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Refinery29, SundanceTV, and Jimmy Iovine. Before joining Rubenstein, Joy was a Publicity Manager at Starz Entertainment where she created and executed campaigns to promote original Starz programming, including Spartacus, Boss, Power, Survivor’s Remorse, and Flesh and Bone, among others.

Prior to Starz, Joy worked at Fifteen Minutes Public Relations, where she created tactical campaigns and developed strategy and programming for Alloy Entertainment & Alloy Digital, Soledad O’Brien, Mark Cuban’s HDNet, and Mandalay Films & Peter Guber. She began her career at Wolf-Kasteler Public Relations, where she worked on PR, marketing, social media, and branding for prestigious clients in the television, film, fashion, literary, and non-profit industries, including Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Nicolas Cage, Miranda Kerr, Mark Ruffalo, Kate Walsh, Amnesty International, and Oceana.

Joy earned her Bachelor of Science in Public Relations from the University of Texas at Austin.