Roger Berlind
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Roger Stuart Berlind | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 27, 1930 Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill , well-known Broadway producer |
| Spouses | Helen Polk Clark
(m. 1962; died 1975)Brook Radway Wheeler
(m. 1979) |
| Children | 4, including William Berlind |
| Parent(s) | Peter Sydney Berlind Mae Miller Berlind |
Roger Stuart BerlindShearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock.
Early life
Berlind was born to a
Princeton Tower Club. The crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 on June 24, 1975 killed his wife, Helen Polk Clark, and three of his four children.[5][6]
Theatrical career
His theatrical producing career began in 1976. Since then, he has produced or co-produced more than forty plays and musicals on
Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, Passion, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Copenhagen, Kiss Me, Kate, Proof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics, the 2004 revival of Wonderful Town, Curtains, and Deuce
.
In 2003, the 360-seat Roger S. Berlind Theatre opened in the McCarter Theatre Center at Princeton University. Princeton's Roger S. Berlind Professorship in the Humanities, previously held by Joyce Carol Oates, is currently held by Tracy K. Smith.[8] In 2009, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[9]
See also
References
- ^ Miss Wheeler, Roger Berlind Will Be Wed, NYTimes.com; accessed June 20, 2015.
- ^ Inskeep, Steve (October 10, 2006). "Sandy Weill and the Story Behind Citigroup". NPR.
As I got to know Roger, I realized he hid his being Jewish well, and Arthur and I assumed he wanted Potoma to be included so that we wouldn't be seen to the outside world as a Jewish firm.
- ^ Roger Berlind profile, filmreference.com; accessed June 20, 2015.
- ^ Berlind, Roger Stuart. Princeton University. Department of English (ed.). "The Quest of the Ideal in the Plays of Yeats and Synge".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Robert J. Hughess (January 30, 2004). "Out of Personal Tragedy, a Producer was Born". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Horowitz Jr., Saul (June 26, 1975). "Sketches of Some of the Prominent People Killed in Kennedy Air Crash". The New York Times.
Helen Polk Clark Berlind and three of her four young children were returning from New Orleans after a two‐week visit with her mother, Mrs. Richard H. Clark of Hattiesburg, Miss.
- ^ "Roger Berlind – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Tracy K. Smith".
- ^ Playbill.com