Elliot Caplan

Summer 2008

Emmy award winning producer Elliot Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos.From 1996-2000, Caplan served as segment producer for PBS’s national series on art in America, “EGG,” and received an Emmy Award and Cine Golden Eagle for “Outstanding Cultural Programming.” Caplan’s other work includes theater design and direction. In collaboration with Tony award winning performer Bill Irwin, Caplan designed an evening of theater and video, which was presented at The Roundabout Theatre in New York, June 1999. In 1998, Elliot Caplan founded Picture Start Films to produce artistic and commercial media projects and bring artists together to express their ideas in an open forum.