Theodore S. Chapin is President and Executive Director of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Presiding over a staff of 50, Mr. Chapin is responsible for the overall operation of the various divisions within R&H including Williamson Music, the Irving Berlin Music Company, R&H Theatricals, and the R&H Concert Library.

A native of New York City, Mr. Chapin attended the initial semester of the National Theater Institute of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center. By the time he graduated from Connecticut College in 1972, he had amassed more than five years of Broadway credits as the production or directorial assistant for FOLLIES, THE ROTHSCHILDS, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE and, beyond New York, Bernstein's MASS at the Kennedy Center, and CANDIDE at the Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Operas.

From 1972 to 1975, Mr. Chapin served as Associate to Alan Arkin, where his credits included Neil Simon's THE SUNSHINE BOYS (Broadway and National Company); the CBS telecast of TWIGS starring Carol Burnett; RUBBERS & YANKS 3 DETROIT 0 TOP OF THE SEVENTH; and Neil Cuthbert's THE SOFT TOUCH.

From 1976 until he joined R&H in 1981, Mr. Chapin's career included serving as Musical Director for the National Theatre of the Deaf's production of FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS, Associate Director of the National Theater Institute, and Producer of the Musical Theatre Lab at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

In 2003, Mr. Chapin turned his observations as the Production Assistant on Sondheim's FOLLIES into a book, EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE: THE BIRTH OF THE MUSICAL "FOLLIES," which was published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf and in paperback by Applause Books.

Mr. Chapin currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the American Theater Wing, and has been chairman of the Advisory Committee for New York City Center's Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series since its inception. He served as a Tony Awards nominator for two seasons, and is currently a member of the Tony Administration Committee. He has served as a visiting lecturer for the Cameron Mackintosh Chair in Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University; as a panelist for the Opera/Musical Theatre program of the National Endowment for the Arts; and as a producer and lecturer for four concerts of the Doubleday series at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

A resident of New York City, he is married and the father of two daughters.