Roger Berlind

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Roger S. Berlind (1931-) is a New York City theatrical producer and director 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.

[edit] Education

He attended Princeton University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1954.

[edit] Theatrical career

His theatrical producing career began in 1976. Since then, he has produced or co-produced over 40 plays and musicals on Broadway and many off-Broadway and regional productions as well. The Broadway productions have won a total of 62 Tony Awards, including 12 for Best Production. Some of these are Amadeus, Nine, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Ain't Misbehavin', Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, Passion (by his friend, Stephen Sondheim), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, also by Steve, Copenhagen, Kiss Me, Kate and Proof. This season (2004), he co-produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics and the revival of Wonderful Town. This spring season on Broadway in New York City he will co-produce with Roger Horchow the murder-mystery-musical Curtains (musical) by John Kander and Fred Ebb starring David Hyde Pierce. Curtains (musical) is the last of the Kander & Ebb musicals to perform on Broadway after Fred Ebb's death.