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Roger Stuart Berlind (June 27, 1930 – December 18, 2020) was a New York City theatrical producer and board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. He was one of the founders of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill in 1960, a company that would later through Sandy Weill become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock.

Early life

Berlind was born to a Jewish family in New York City, to Mae (née Miller) and Peter Sydney Berlind, a hospital administrator. He attended Princeton University and received his bachelor's degree in English in 1954 after completing an 82-page long senior thesis titled "The Quest of the Ideal in the Plays of Yeats and Synge". Berlind was a member of the 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.

Theatrical career

His theatrical producing career began in 1976. Since then, he has produced or co-produced more than forty plays and musicals on Broadway and many off-Broadway and regional theatre productions as well. Berlind has won 25 Tony Awards, more than any other individual. His Broadway productions have won numerous Tony Awards. Among them are Amadeus, Nine, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Ain't Misbehavin', 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. In 2009, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

See also

• Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt
• Theatre
• New York City

References

1. Miss Wheeler, Roger Berlind Will Be Wed, NYTimes.com; accessed June 20, 2015.
2. 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.
3. Roger Berlind profile, filmreference.com; accessed June 20, 2015.
4. 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)
5. Robert J. Hughess (January 30, 2004). "Out of Personal Tragedy, a Producer was Born". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
6. 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.
7. "Roger Berlind – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
8. "Tracy K. Smith".
9. Playbill.com

External links

• Roger Berlind at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lehman Brothers - Board of Directors at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-10-01)
• Testimony of Roger S. Berlind on behalf of the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.
• Person Tearsheet
• Washingtonpost.com: The Ethics Squeeze

• 1930 births
• 2020 deaths
• Princeton University alumni
• American entertainment industry businesspeople
• American theatre managers and producers
• Jews from New York (state)
• Lehman Brothers people