Dalton Delan is an American writer, editor, and television producer. His works with WETA, PBS and Sundance have won him numerous awards for his documentaries and primetime shows. A number of his projects include working alongside Robert Redford. He is executive producer of In Performance at the White House; bringing Bob Dylan in 2010, and Paul McCartney to the White House in 2011, with Mick Jagger performing in 2012. So far, Delan has worked with presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in making the In Performance at the White House possible. Delan is also an executive producer of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, presented by the Kennedy Center to notable names in humor and comedy. Delan is also Co-Creator and an Executive Producer of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Music, whose first recipient was Paul Simon, in a ceremony at the Warner Theater. He then arranged the relocation of the ceremony to the White House as part of the In Performance at the White House series on PBS, with subsequent honorees Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and Carole King in 2013.
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