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- Jordan Roth is a four time Tony award-winning producer, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, and New York City fashion icon. As president of Jujamcyn Theaters, Roth oversees five Broadway theatres, presenting some of the most influential and successful musicals and plays on Broadway including: Frozen at the St. James, Mean Girls at the August Wilson, Tony Award-winner Springsteen on Broadway at the Walter Kerr, and Tony Award-winner The Book of Mormon.
In 2018, Roth debuted his online animated comedy series, The Birds and the BS with Jordan Roth. The musical series, billed as, "a kids show for adults," addresses hot-button cultural topics with animated celebrity guests including Alan Cumming, Mandy Patinkin, Ana Gasteyer, Sutton Foster, Laura Benanti, and Billy Porter. In addition to his series Roth is an actor and producer known for his roles in Present Laughter (2017), Broadway Draft 2015 (2015) and I Think I Do (1997).
As a philanthropist, Roth combined his love of theatre with his passion for giving back by creating Givenik.com, a service allowing theatergoers to buy discounted tickets and give 5% of their ticket price to the charity of their choice. Givenik supports over 750 charitable organizations, including Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, God's Love We Deliver, The Trevor Project, and many more.
Roth graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with degrees in philosophy and theatre, and received his MBA from Columbia Business School. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Broadway League, Times Square Alliance and the Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation.
Jordan and his husband Richie Jackson live in New York City with their two sons.- IMDb Mini Biography By: ARA
- SpouseRichie Jackson(September 8, 2012 - present)
- Son of Daryl Roth and Steven Roth of New York City; Son-in-law of Carol Jackson and Paul Jackson. Became a stepfather, upon marrying Richie Jackson, of Jackson Foo Wong (from Richie's longtime former partner, BD Wong).
- His Jujamcyn Theaters Company presently (as of July 2014) owns five Broadway theaters, including the St. James Theatre, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, August Wilson Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, and Walter Kerr Theatre, making Juhamcyn the third largest theater owning entity on Broadway, after the Shubert Organization and the Nederlander Organization.
- Member of the board of trustees of the Horace Mann School, of which he is an alumnus.
- He is the majority owner and President of Jujamcyn Theaters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, where he has produced "A Catered Affair," "American Idiot," "Spring Awakening," and "The Book of Mormon". His minority partner is Rocco Landesman.
- On September 8, 2012, he and Richie Jackson held their wedding at Al Hirschfeld Theater (one of the theaters owned by his company, Jujamsyn Theaters) on Broadway in New York City. Wedding guests included BD Wong, Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, Tyra Banks, Bryant Gumbel, Lloyd Blankfein, David Geffen, Leslie Moonves, Julie Chen Moonves, Christine Quinn and her wife, Kim Cutullo, Edie Falco, Harvey Fierstein, Bobby Cannavale, and Melissa Etheridge, and Richie Jackson's son Jackson Foo Wong (now also stepson of Jordan Roth). Melissa Etheridge wrote a song for the occasion, as a gift to the newly married couple.
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