Roger Berlind, University Trustee and Theatrical Producer, Dies at 90

January 7, 2021
Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Roger Berlind, who produced or co-produced more than 100 plays and musicals on Broadway and amassed 25 Tony Awards, died on December 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.

In 1986, Berlind, a supporter of the arts and humanities at Princeton, made an endowment gift in the Humanities Council’s Program in Creative Writing, appointing Joyce Carol Oates as the inaugural Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Lecturer in Creative Writing.

Read The New York Times obituary here.

Read the University obituary here.

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