Winner will receive contact information to coordinate with Mr. Dean.

Van Dean is a Tony® Award and Grammy® Award winning producer. Van is a co-producer on the new film musical of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh and written and directed by Academy® Award winner Bill Condon. Dean is also a co-producer of the feature film documentary “Midsummer in Newtown” which premiered as a Spotlight selection at Tribeca Film Festival. His theater credits include The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Tony Award), Anastasia, Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette and Diablo Cody (Tony Award nomination), SMASH, The Hills of California, How to Dance in Ohio, Cabaret (2024 Broadway revival, Tony Award nomination), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony Award nomination), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Matilda (Tony Award nomination), Evita (Tony Award nomination), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony Award nomination), Catch Me If You Can (Tony Award nomination), The Velocity of Autumn, Big Fish, Bonnie & Clyde, Chinglish, the Off-Broadway production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (2016) and ROOMS a rock romance and the national tours of Anastasia, Matilda, Cinderella, Jagged Little Pill, The Lightning Thief and more. He was also a producer of Master Class with Tyne Daly and the 2022 and 2023 productions of Bonnie & Clyde in London’s West End.

Van co-founded Broadway Records which released nearly 300 albums such as cast albums for shows including the Grammy Award winning The Color Purple 2015 revival with Jennifer Hudson and eight that were Grammy® nominated (Matilda, Once On This Island, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof with Danny Burstein, Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s Some Lovers and Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots, Caroline, or Change, Randy Rainbow’s “A Little Brains, A Little Talent”). In 2024, Van Dean launched a new label, Center Stage Records, that has taken on nearly 2/3 of Broadway Records’ catalog and has released many exciting new albums in its first two years including the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of How to Dance in Ohio, Gutenberg, Floyd Collins, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Once Upon a Mattress, the concept album of JC Chasez and Jimmy Harry’s Playing With Fire, the soundtrack of Kiss of the Spider Woman and many more.