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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.

Background and Family

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 . 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. They have two children, Amanda and Jordan. 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.

Daryl Roth Theatre

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.

Credits

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

|- |Film Executive Producer |- |I Think I Do, Strand Releasing||1997 |- |Waking Dreams (short film), Big Film Shorts||2004 |- |Television Executive Producer |- |Movies |- |(With others) Dinner with Friends, HBO||2001

The Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award

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

Factoids

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

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References

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

External links

• Daryl Roth Productions website
• Darly Roth Theatre website