eight years, from 1999 to 2007. He is one of the founders of On the Road, a theatrical booking agency, Showtix, a Broadway group sales company that was acquired by Hollywood Media and Broadway Inner Circle, a premium ticket agency. He is a member of The Broadway League, the Society of London Theatre, and the League of Off Broadway Theatres and Producers. From 2000 to 2005, he was the operator with partners of the Arts Theatre in London, presenting such productions as The Pet Shop Boys Musical Closer to Heaven. In 2012, along with partners Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, and Steven Barch opened the cabaret nightclub 54 Below, a 150-seat performance venue and restaurant with leading Broadway performers and emerging talent. Patti LuPone was the opening act in June 2012. The awards he and his partners won for the new club include the MAC Board of Directors Award, The Nightlife Award, The June Briggs Award for Excellence in Destination Management, and The Concierge Choice Award for Nightlife. In 2018 he and his partners were honored by New York Musical Festival for their contribution to musical theatre. With partner Simone Genatt he formed Broadway Asia Company in 1992, Broadway Asia International in 2009 and Broadway International in 2014. Broadway Asia Company is a booking and licensing agency which represents select Broadway productions as well as the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalogue. Producing credits include the North American tours of the Vietnamese Water Puppets and Cookin’, as well as productions of Stomp, Swing, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Hairspray, Cinderella starring Lea Salonga, The King and I, 42nd Street, SpongeBob SquarePants, An American in Paris, The Producers in Asia and the ground-breaking Mandarin language production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change which premiered in Shanghai, toured China, and the Chinese cast performed in repertory with the New York cast in the original off-Broadway production at the Westside Theatre. The Creature from the Black Lagoon is a new musical which premiered at Universal Studios Hollywood. The musical Reel to Real, utilizing live performers and footage from the golden age of the Hollywood movies, premiered in Beijing and was most recently presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Routh and Genatt served as executive producers of the musical version of Jay Chou's The Secret, Neverland, the immersive Peter Pan experience, and China Goes Pop. Routh is the recipient of the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial