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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

 * 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
 * Television Executive Producer
 * Movies
 * (With others) Dinner with Friends, HBO||2001
 * Movies
 * (With others) Dinner with Friends, HBO||2001
 * (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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