JOHN W. DIMON
John Dimon is CEO of Diamond Entertainment Inc., a Toronto-based company he founded in 1994. The company produces quality live entertainment for television, theatres and special events. He also heads AACT, a non-profit arts association with the mandate to develop and further Canadian talent.
John has enjoyed an illustrious career in both television and live theatre. During his many years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and later producing hundreds of stage shows, he has worked alongside some of the world’s most talented writers, directors, and producers. Here is a recent CBC Newsletter article profiling John
He has participated in numerous U.S./Canada/International television co-productions in association with such notable producers as Jim Henson, David Susskind, Dan Curtis, David Jarrett, Jackie Cooper, Duncan Kenworthy, Lorne Michaels and others. In respect to co-ventures, Dimon has developed, acquired, and contracted independent film and television projects for the CBC Network. He has experience liaising with private broadcasters and government funding agencies such as Telefilm Canada.
During his tenure at CBC, he held various executive positions including: Senior Advisor for Independent TV Production, Area Head TV Variety, Manager Administration and Production TV Drama, Executive Producer TV Variety, Producer, Manager Administration and Finance Light Entertainment, and Unit Manager on hundreds of television programs. His executive roles in television have given him strong organizational, administrative, and creative skills.
Dimon has received prestigious international awards including an International Emmy Award for Best Children’s Television Series for Fraggle Rock, and the San Francisco Film Festival Award for Best Television Program for Strawberry Ice, a two-hour variety special which garnered eight ANIK craft awards, ten ACTRA nominations, and sold in over 50 countries worldwide.
Dimon won the 1983 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Program for Children and Young People, for the award-winning television series Fraggle Rock
For eleven years, Dimon was editor-writer-publisher of Music World, a music/entrainment magazine. He has written two contemporary novels, “Starstruck,” and his second, “Megan’s Law,” is being developed as a TV series. Dimon is the founder and CEO of Vanguard Film Production
Diamond Entertainment has produced over 300 stage shows featuring live music for theatres, festivals and special events. Most of the stage productions focused on Big Band music and contemporary Pop. For example, Dimon produced “Stardust Follies,” a colorful Las Vegas-to-Vaudeville-to-Broadway musical that ran two seasons at the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts. Dimon also produced live entertainment for Stage West Dinner Theatre and ran his own Stardust Dinner Theatre, which was successful and had a long-running engagement in the Chestnut Hotel in downtown Toronto.
Presently, Dimon has mounted two new music reviews: “BLACK GOLD…Songs that touch your soul”…a dynamic music review starring an all-star cast performing the memorable music of The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Diana Ross and the Supremes, to Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson, and others. And “Unforgettable…Songs of the Super Stars,” a dynamic music review headlined by an amazing entertainer, Rudy Mayes, along with singers Vanessa Cobham and Tash Lorayne.
John Dimon resides in Toronto, Canada, and Denver, Colorado.
