Jan Du Plain

Consultant

Jan Du Plain is a public relations and special events executive who has worked in the Washington DC area for over 40 years. Her career began in California as an advertising executive on her father’s newspaper; a literary agency in Hollywood; and then to NYC to become a publicist for CBS Films, a motion picture company that produced such hits as “Little Big Man” with Dustin Hoffman and the “Reivers” with Steve McQueen. She landed in Washington DC in 1971 and served as the PR Director at historic Ford’s Theater promoting such shows as “Godspell,” David Wayne in “An Unpleasant Evening with H.L. Mencken,” and Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight.” She enjoyed a short career as an actress with a repertory theatre in northern California starring in the hit show “Same Time Next Year.” She returned to Washington and for 15 years was the PR Director of WETA, the 3rd largest producer of public TV shows for PBS, promoting such luminaries as award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War) talk show hosts Bill Moyers, Charlie Rose and David Frost. . She is a graduate of the School of Public Affairs and Government, American University, Washington, D.C. and has received many honors during her prestigious career. For the last 13 years, she is the CEO of Du Plain Enterprises Inc, a PR and special events firm and the Du Plain International Speakers Bureau. Her company has handled the successful speakers program for the Smithsonian Institution’s highly acclaimed 150th anniversary celebration on the national mall; Broadway’s smash hit musical, CHICAGO, at the National Theater in Washington, DC; The Shakespeare Guild’s “Sir John Gielgud Award” featuring Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench, Robert Mondavi’s American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, and helped launch Cultural Tourism DC’s “Passport DC,” a citywide open house in Washington DC featuring over 30 embassies.