Daryl Roth (born 1944) is a prominent Broadway theatrical producer. She has produced three plays that have won the Tony Award for Best Play (these are: Proof (2001 winner), The Goat (2003 winner) and August: Osage County (2008 winner)). She has produced six plays that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She started as a theatrical producer at age 44 after being a suburban mother and an interior designer. She started as a producer in 1988 and has since produced or co-produced over 50 shows. [1]

Background and Family

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She grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, her mother was a homemaker and her father, Jerry Atkins, was the owner of a Chevrolet car dealership in Wayne. She has one sibling, her sister Dale Atkins, who is now a well known psychologist and media personality who has written a book about relationships between sisters [2] [3]. As a child Roth and her family were always interested in Broadway theatre and other cultural events in New York City.

She attended Wayne High School, Syracuse University and New York University, graduating in 1966 with a degree in art history. She worked as an editor and writer for Seventeen magazine and married Steven Roth, a real-estate developer, in 1969. He attended Dartmouth ('62) and had also received an MBA from Dartmouth. [4] They have two children, Amanda and Jordan. [1] Jordan Roth is a theatrical producer and executive; he is the CEO and half-owner of Jujamcyn Amusement Corporation, one of the three principal owners and operators of New York's Broadway theatres.

Daryl Roth's husband, Steven Roth, is a successful real estate executive and developer. He started as a developer of strip malls and is now the Chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, one of the largest institutional investors in commercial real estate in New York and the United States. [5]

Daryl Roth Theatre

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They bought the Union Square Savings Bank building in 1996 and converted it into a theatre. Started with De La Guarda which lasted seven years. Gutted the garage of the bank and made it into DR2 (DR=Daryl Roth), a 99-seat theatre.

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Credits

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Show Authors Theatre Year hold bhold
Nick & Nora (musical) Arthur Laurents (book), Charles Strouse (music) Marquis Theatre, NYC 1991
The Baby Dance Jane Anderson Lucille Lortel Theatre, NYC 1991
Three Tall Women Edward Albee Promenade Theatre, New York City 1994 - Pulitzer
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Anna Deavere Smith (solo performance)
Das Barbecu Jim Luigs and Scott Warrender Minetta Lane Theatre, NYC 1994
Camping with Henry and Tom Mark St. Germain Wild Dancer Theatre Company, Lucille Lortel Theatre 1995
How I Learned to Drive* Paula Vogel Vineyard Theatre, Century Center for the Performing Arts, New York City 1997 - Pulitzer
Old Wicked Songs Jon Marans Jewish Repertory Theatre, Playhouse 91, New YorkCity, 1995, then Promenade Theatre 1996
Defying Gravity Jane Anderson American Place Theatre, New York City 1997
Snakebit David Marshall Grant Century Center for the Performing Arts 1999
De La Guarda Pichon Baldinu, Digui James Daryl Roth Theatre, New York City 1998
Wit Margaret Edson Manhattan Class Company, Union Square Theatre 1998 - Pulitzer
The Bomb-itty of Errors Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, G.Q., Erik Weiner Culture Project, Forty-Five Bleecker Street Theatre, New York City 1999
The Play About the Baby Edward Albee Century Center for the Performing Arts 2000
Proof David Auburn Manhattan Theatre Club, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City 2000 Tony-Best Play-2001 Pulitzer
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife {{Charles Busch]] Manhattan Theatre Club, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City 2000
Bea Arthur on Broadway - Booth Theatre, New York City 2002
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Edward Albee John Golden Theatre, New York City 2002 Tony-Best Play-2002
Talking Heads Alan Bennett Minetta Lane Theatre 2003
Our Lady of 121st Street Stephen Adly Guirgis Union Square Theatre 2003
Harlem Song
Medea Euripides Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City 2002
Salome (staged reading) Oscar Wilde Ethel Barrymore Theatre 2003
Tea at Five Matthew Lombardo Promenade Theatre 2003
Anna in the Tropics Nilo Cruz Royale Theatre, New York City 2003 - Pulitzer
Beckett/Albee Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee Century Center for the Performing Arts 2003
Caroline, or Change (musical) Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City 2004
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee Broadway 2005
Thom Paine
Manuscript
Sandra Bernhardt
Coram Boy Helen Edmundson Broadway 2007
Curtains (musical) Rupert Holmes, Fred Ebb and John Kander, Broadway and Los Angeles 2007
Deuce Terrence McNally Broadway 2007
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Broadway 2007
Assisted Loving
Indoor Outdoor
Esoterica
August: Osage County Tracy Letts bb - Tony-Best Play-2008 Pulitzer
A Catered Affair Harvey Fierstein & John Bucchino Broadway 2008
The Country Girl Clifford Odets Broadway 2008
Is He Dead? Mark Twain Broadway 2007
Thurgood George Stevens, Jr. Broadway 2008
Die, Mommie, Die! Charles Busch Off-Broadway 2007
Irena's Vow Dan Gordon Broadway 2009
Desire Under the Elms Eugene O'Neill Broadway 2009
What's That Smell? David Pittu
Mary Stuart Peter Oswald Broadhurst Theatre 2009
The Temperamentals Jon Marans
Vigil
A Little Night Music Steven Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler
Fela Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis Eugene O'Neill Theatre 2009
Love, Loss, and What I Wore Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron Off-Broadway 2009
Closer Than Ever (musical revue) Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC 1989
The Root - Atlantic Theatre, NYC 1993
Tapestry: The Music of Carole King - Union Square Theatre, NYC 1993
Ears on a Beatle DR2, off-Broadway production 2004
The Mambo Kings (musical) Carlos Franzetti music Golden Gate Theatre,San Francisco, CA 2005
Accent On Youth Samson Raphaelson Broadway 2009


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The Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award

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Dedicated to nurturing and supporting theatre artists, is given annually to an artist who has demonstrated exceptional talent and promise in his or her field. Recent recipients include:

  • Directors: Michael Wilson, Michael Mayer, Mark Brokaw, Steven Williford;
  • Playwrights: Sinan Ünel, Sybille Pearson, Edwin Sanchez, Kia Corthron, Karen Hartman;
  • Designer G.W. Mercier;
  • Actor Debra Monk;
  • Muscial Theater Works: organization devoted to creating and developing new musicals, 1983 to 2004 (closed)
  • The New Dramatists, a center for the support of playwrights [7]

Factoids

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  • Daryl and Steven Roth purchased the Montauk home of convicted Wall Street felon, Bernie Madoff in October, 2009. [8]


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References

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  1. ^ a b Ian Parker, Annals of Theatre, “How to Be a Producer,” The New Yorker, November 4, 2002, p. 60 abstract (subscription required for full text online).
  2. ^ Sisters, A Practical, Helpful Exploration of the Intimate and Complete Bond between Female Siblings, Dale V. Atkins, 1984 Published by Arbor House
  3. ^ article about Dr. Dale Atkins Westport News, April 16, 2004
  4. ^ Forbes.com capsule biography of Steven Roth
  5. ^ Interview with Daryl Roth - video interview, on "Obsessed" with Samantha Ettus
  6. ^ Film Reference.com listing for Daryl Roth
  7. ^ New Dramatists website
  8. ^ "Vornado Realty's Roth Buys Madoff's Montauk Estate" Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2009.


Video interview American Theatre Wing

http://www.celebrityparentsmag.com/magazine/

Great Producers: Visionaries of American Theater, by Iris Dorbian, Allworth Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1581156461

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