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Van Kaplan (Producer)

Van Kaplan, Theatrical Producer and the Executive Producer of the Pittsburgh CLO a  non-profit arts organization which produces a subscription series, educational programs, national tours and develops and invests in new works. Broadway productions include: Evita, Catch Me If You Can, Come Fly Away, The Elephant Man, The Addams Family, Kinky Boots, Matilda, An American in Paris and On Your Feet! Over 20 Broadway musicals (25 Tony Awards®). He has produced touring productions of Camelot, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Phantom, Singin’ in the Rain, Chess, Grand Hotel, City of Angels, Evita, Brigadoon and Nunsense II. His directorial credits include Guys and Dolls with Victoria Clark, She Loves Me, West Side Story, Kopit & Yeston’s Phantom, On the Town, Sweeney Todd with Candy Buckley, South Pacific with Cathy Rigby, Nunsense, Shear Madness, Ruthless, Guys and Dolls with Georgia Engel. "You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!" and the regional premiere of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues at Pittsburgh’s Quantum Theater. He is the stage director each year for The JimmyTM Awards at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre. Mr. Kaplan is a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts, a former Theatre Panel chair for the Texas Commission on the Arts, and has served as adjunct professor of Carnegie Mellon’s Masters of Arts Management Program. He has been a Tony® Awards voter for over 20 years, is a member of The Broadway League, serves on the Investment Committee of the Independent Presenters Network (IPN) and is past president of The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT). Mr. Kaplan is the co-founder of the National High School Musical Theater Awards-The JimmyTM Awards which was filmed by PBS for the documentary "Broadway or Bust." Pittsburgh CLO is the subject of a 2007 film starring Jeff Goldblum titled PITTSBURGH.