An “Intimate Conversation with Andy Cohen” is scheduled for The Pavilion at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Friday, May 12, at 8 p.m.
Tickets priced at $20 will be on sale starting Sunday, March 12, via Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 800-653-8000. The Pavilion box office will also open at 1 p.m. on the day of the show for on-site ticket purchases and will call pickup.
The one-hour show, which will include a moderator as well as a question and answer session with the audience, will precede a book signing at 9:15 p.m.
Cohen is an Emmy Award-winning host, producer, and author best known as the host and executive producer of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Bravo’s late night, interactive talk show. The series is the only live show in late night television and features everyone from “Bravolebrities” to big names in pop culture, including Oprah Winfrey, Cher, Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lopez, Will Ferrell and Mariah Carey.
He also serves as executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise and hosts the network’s highly-rated reunion specials. Additionally, he’s the New York Times best-selling author of The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look At a Shallow Year and Most Talkative: Stories from the Frontlines of Pop Culture. His most recent book, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries, was published last November.
In his 10 years as an executive at Bravo he was responsible for an aggressive slate of unscripted series and specials including hits such as Project Runway, Top Chef, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, The Millionaire Matchmaker, the Million Dollar Listing franchise, Being Bobby Brown, Shahs of Sunset, Flipping Out, Top Design, Kathy Griffin My Life On the D List, The Rachel Zoe Project, Bethenny Ever After, Tabatha’s Salon Takeover and The Real Housewives franchise.
Cohen, who hails from St. Louis, started at Bravo in 2004 as Vice President, Original Programming and, most recently, served as Bravo’s Executive Vice President of Development and Talent from November 2011 to January 2014.
He received an Emmy Award when season six of Top Chef won Outstanding Reality Competition Program at the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for 17 additional Emmy Awards as Executive Producer of Project Greenlight, Project Runway, Top Chef and Queer Eye.
In 2005, Cohen was awarded a Peabody Award for his role as Executive Producer of the TRIO documentary The N Word and another in 2008 as an Executive Producer of Project Runway. He spent 10 years (1990-2000) as a producer at CBS News, working on CBS This Morning and 48 Hours.
Cohen will be hosting the game show reboot, Love Connection, beginning this summer.