Five time Tony® award-winning Broadway producer, Jon B. Platt, will be presented The Commercial Theater Institute's Robert Whitehead Award for "outstanding achievement in commercial theatre producing" at a reception at Sardi's on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. David Stone, Stuart Thompson, and Bob Wankel will present the award.
Spanning just over two decades, Jon B. Platt has produced 28 Broadway productions. Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, won seven Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Best Play Tony Award for Copenhagen, God of Carnage and his most recent for The Book of Mormon, winner of 9 Tony Awards. In addition to being nominated for 14 Tony Awards and winning 5, Jon has received 8 Drama Desk Awards and 6 New York Outer Critics Circle Awards.Videos