Riot Communications appoints Kate Stote as Associate Director

Arts and culture specialist agency Riot Communications has appointed Kate Stote as Associate Director, as it continues to expand its client portfolio across publishing, live events and entertainment.

Stote has over 15 years of experience delivering high-profile PR and audience engagement campaigns across the arts, culture, live events, and entertainment sectors. She has built her career at some of London’s leading agencies, including Frank PR, Taylor Herring and most recently Premier.

Her extensive portfolio includes milestone anniversary campaigns for Ronnie Scott’s 60th and Puffin’s 80th anniversaries; the Booker Prizes; public realm art initiatives for Art of London; and immersive experiences including Frameless, London’s largest permanent immersive art experience, the blockbuster exhibition Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, and the multisensory art experience Illusionaries at Canary Wharf.

Stote has delivered high-profile red-carpet campaigns for events, including the Sky Arts Awards, DragCon and spearheaded purpose-driven projects for The Diana Award’s anti-bullying work and War Child.

At Riot, Kate will use her expertise in strategic campaign development, influencer engagement and live event promotion across a number of the agency’s key publishing clients including the Nero Book Awards, the London Review of Books, Winnie-the-Pooh for Farshore, and the Nine Dots Prize.

In addition, Riot Communications recently appointed Natasha Gill who joined the team as a Campaigns Executive in March 2025. Gill brings with her a range of publishing experience from Little, Brown, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House Children’s. At Riot, Natasha works on a number of high-profile clients including Moomin Characters, the Royal Institution and the Nero Book Awards.

Caitlin Allen, MD at Riot Communications, said: “We’re so excited to have Kate and Natasha join the Riot team. Kate brings extensive experience in publishing but also from across the wider entertainment world, which is a perfect match for us as an agency. Our heartland is books, but we do so much more – from theatre, film and TV, to comedy, cultural institutions, and big brands – and we bring all that knowledge and all those contacts to bear in our book campaigns, offering publishing expertise with a wider entertainment industry perspective. Natasha has already worked in-house for several of the UK’s leading publishers, acquiring excellent experience and an impressive network in that time. We’re delighted to have these two new additions to Team Riot.”