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Daryl Roth | |
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Born | Daryl Atkins December 21, 1944 |
Occupation | Theatrical producer |
Spouse | Steven Roth |
Children | 2, including Jordan Roth |
Website | https://www.darylrothproductions.com |
Daryl Roth (born December 21, 1944) is an American theatre producer who has produced over 90 productions on and off Broadway. Most often serving as a co-producer or investor, Roth has also been a lead producer of Broadway shows such as Kinky Boots, Indecent, Sylvia, It Shoulda Been You, and The Normal Heart. [1]
Roth frequently cites that she holds "the singular distinction of producing seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays." [2] She was a lead producer of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics , Margaret Edson's Wit, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive , and Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Roth was co-producer of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park , Tracy Letts' August: Osage County , and David Auburn's Proof. [3]
Roth was born Daryl Atkins to a Jewish family; her father was a car dealer, and her mother was a homemaker. [4] She was raised in Wayne, New Jersey. [5]
Roth is married to Steven Roth, the billionaire real estate investor; Mr. Roth is a business partner and close confidant of former President Donald Trump. [6] [7] According to the New York Times, Ms. Roth "attended the Trump inauguration with her husband and has avoided publicly taking sides on the administration." [8] In March 2019, President Trump appointed Ms. Roth to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. [9]
Daryl and Steven Roth have two children, including Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters. [5] [10]
Roth's Broadway producing credits include: [11]
Roth's off-Broadway producing credits include: [13] [14]
Year | Show | Award | Category | Result |
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2016 | Shuffle Along | Tony Award | Best Musical | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Musical | Won | ||
The Humans | Tony Award | Best Play | Won | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Won | ||
The Crucible | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated | ||
A View from the Bridge | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Won | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated | ||
The Robber Bridegroom | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Won | |
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Solo Show | Nominated | |
Kinky Boots | Olivier Awards | MasterCard Best New Musical | Won | |
Evening Standard Award | Best Musical | Won | ||
2015 | It Shoulda Been You | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Nominated |
2014 | You Can't Take It With You | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Nominated |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Won | ||
This is Our Youth | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Nominated | |
A Raisin in the Sun | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Won | |
Buyer & Cellar | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Solo Show | Won | |
2013 | The Testament of Mary | Tony Award | Best Play | Nominated |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Nominated | ||
Kinky Boots | Tony Award | Best Musical | Won | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Won | ||
Lucky Guy | Tony Award | Best Play | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Nominated | ||
Annie | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Musical | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Nominated | ||
My Name is Asher Lev | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Won | |
2012 | Leap of Faith | Tony Award | Best Musical | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Musical | Nominated | ||
Clybourne Park | Tony Award | Best Play | Won | |
One Man, Two Guvnors | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Nominated | |
2011 | The Normal Heart | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Won |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Won | ||
War Horse | Tony Award | Best Play | Won | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Won | ||
Through the Night | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Solo Show | Nominated | |
2010 | Come Fly Away | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Nominated |
A Little Night Music | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Musical | Nominated | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Nominated | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Nominated | ||
Fela! | Tony Award | Best Musical | Nominated | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Musical | Nominated | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Nominated | ||
The Temperamentals | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Play | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Nominated | ||
Love, Loss, and What I Wore | Drama Desk Award | Unique Theatrical Experience | Won | |
2009 | Mary Stuart | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated | ||
Irena's Vow | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Nominated | |
What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Nominated | |
2008 | The Country Girl | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated |
A Catered Affair | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Broadway Musical | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Nominated | ||
August: Osage County | Tony Award | Best Play | Won | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Won | ||
2007 | Curtains | Tony Award | Best Musical | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Musical | Nominated | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Nominated | ||
Coram Boy | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Nominated | |
Inherit the Wind | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated | ||
2005 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Tony Award | Best Revival of a Play | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated | ||
2004 | Caroline, or Change | Tony Award | Best Musical | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Musical | Nominated | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Nominated | ||
Anna in the Tropics | Tony Award | Best Play | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Nominated | ||
2003 | Medea | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Nominated |
Talking Heads | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Nominated | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Off-Broadway Play | Nominated | ||
Our Lady of 121st Street | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Play | Nominated | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Nominated | ||
2002 | The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? | Tony Award | Best Play | Won |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Won | ||
2001 | The Tale of the Allergist's Wife | Tony Award | Best Play | Nominated |
Proof | Tony Award | Best Play | Won | |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Won | ||
Bea Arthur on Broadway | Tony Award | Best Special Theatrical Event | Nominated | |
The Play About the Baby | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Play | Nominated | |
2000 | The Bomb-itty of Errors | Outer Critics Award | Outstanding Off-Broadway Play | Nominated |
1999 | Snakebit | Outer Critics Award | Outstanding Off-Broadway Play | Nominated |
De La Guarda | Drama Desk Award | Unique Theatrical Experience | Won | |
1997 | How I Learned to Drive | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Play | Won |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Won | ||
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Off-Broadway Play | Won | ||
1995 | Das Barbecu | Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical | Nominated |
Camping with Henry & Tom | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Play | Won | |
Outer Critics Circle | Outstanding Off-Broadway Play | Won | ||
1994 | Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | Tony Award | Best Play | Nominated |
Three Tall Women | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play | Nominated | |
1989 | Closer Than Ever | Outer Critics Circle | Best Off-Broadway Musical | Won |
Roth's film credits include:
The former Union Square Savings Bank building was acquired by Roth in 1996 and has undergone renovation and additions in order to create a three-hundred seat theatre, the Daryl Roth Theatre. A smaller theatre, the DR2 Theatre, is located in an annex at 103 East 15th Street. [22]
Roth is a Member of the Mayor's Theater Subdistrict Council, [23] an Honorary Trustee for Lincoln Center Theater, [24] and served on the board of directors of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York State Council on the Arts. She also is an appointed member of the New York City Police Foundation Board of Trustees. [25]
Her other awards and honors include: The 2016 Order of the Golden Sphinx Award from The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770; [26] The 2014 New York Living Landmarks award; [27] The 2013 Einstein Humanitarian Award from The Women's Division and Albert Einstein College of Medicine; [28] The 2013 Broadway Association Visionary Leader Award; [29] The Stella Adler 2012 Harold Clurman Spirit Award; [30] the 2012 Family Equality Council Hostetter-Habib Family Award; The 2011 Live Out Loud Humanitarian Award, [31] 2010 Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award, [32] Primary Stages 2007 Honoree, [33] The National Foundation for Jewish Culture's Patron of the Arts Award, [34] The Jewish Theological Seminary's Louis Marshall Award, [35] The Albert Einstein College of Medicine Spirit of Achievement Award, [36] The National Corporate Theatre Fund's Chairman Award, and The Tisch School of the Arts Award for Artistic Leadership. [37] Roth has twice been included in Crain's “100 Most Influential Women in Business. [38] ”
The Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award annually honors a gifted theatre artist or organization, providing them with financial support as they develop new works in an artistic residency. [13] [39]
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