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Roberta Pereira

Producing Director
The Playwrights Realm
Participates in 2 items
ROBERTA PEREIRA is a Tony-nominated, Olivier Award-winning theater producer. She is currently the Producing Director of The Playwrights Realm, an Off-Broadway theater company devoted to supporting early-career playwrights, where she produced the world premiere of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, which was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Beyond her work with The Realm, Roberta has developed and produced plays, musicals, and event theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, in the West End, and on tour. Past select productions include: Tony-nominated play Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally, starring Tyne Daly; the Olivier award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, in the West End; and the Broadway premiere of Grace, starring Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, and Ed Asner. Roberta is also the co-founder and Managing Editor of Dress Circle Publishing, which publishes series such as Jennifer Ashley Tepper's "The Untold Stories of Broadway" and Seth Rudetsky's Seth's "Broadway Diaries." She has been a speaker on the topic of producing and anti-racism and inclusion in the arts in multiple forums, like BroadwayCon, NYU/Tisch, Yale University, and Commercial Theatre Institute. Roberta is a graduate of Yale School of Drama's Theater Management program and Wesleyan University. She is originally from Brazil and currently lives in New York City with her daughter. Twitter: @roberta_m_p

Sessions in which Roberta Pereira participates

Friday 26 January, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center - Renee Harris Room

Roberta Pereira, The Playwrights Realm (Moderator)

Luis Salgado, In the Heights (Participant)

Daphne Rubin-Vega (Participant)

David Mendizábal (Participant)

Emilio Sosa (Participant)

With discussions of "diversity" in the theater more prominent than ever, where do Latinx artists fit in? A frank discussion on where we are and whe...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Mamma Mia, Here I Go Again: Parenting in Theatre
50 minutes, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center - Vinnette Carroll Room

Roberta Pereira, The Playwrights Realm (Moderator)

Mike Lew (Participant)

Rehana Lew Mirza, A People’s Guide to History in the Time of Here and Now (Participant)

Clint Ramos (Participant)

Sarah Ruhl (Participant)

Rachel Spencer Hewitt (Participant)

ow do parent artists pursue their careers while parenting the next generation of theatergoers/makers? H...