1981 given by Arthur Miller, a noted UM alum and playwright (and student of Thorpe Rowe). Roth is married to Kate Schecter, the CEO and President of World Neighbors. They have two daughters. Teaching career From 1988 to 1997, Roth was a lecturer for the University of Michigan's English and Theater departments, teaching playwriting and dramatic literature. He later taught in the Department of Theater Arts and the Genesis Institute at Brandeis University, and was an adjunct professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Roth has been a visiting professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama graduate program in Dramatic Writing, and a visiting writer at George Washington University. Since 2006, Roth has taught a course in political theater in Washington, DC, for University of Michigan's "Michigan in Washington Program," University of San Francisco's "USFinDC Program" and University of California Berkeley's "Berkeley Washington Program". Artistic Director of Theater J As Artistic Director of Theater J, Roth produced over 129 mainstage productions, including 44 world premieres, and 150 staged workshops and readings. He was credited since taking over in 1997 with leading Theater J to "national prominence as a home for edgy, politically charged plays – and for nurturing risky new works." The theater is a program of the Washington DCJCC with an Actors' Equity Small Professional Theatre Tier 7 Contract and membership in the League of Washington Theatres, Theater Communications Group, Cultural Alliance, and the Association for Jewish Theatre. He was described as creating a "rare mix of professional polish, thoughtful dramaturgy and nervy experimentation – all in a spot just far enough off the New York radar for a playwright to relax." An article in The New York Times claimed that Roth helped to make Theater J the "premier theater for premieres." It produced new plays ranging from Joyce Carol Oates's The Tattooed Girl and Wendy Wasserstein's Welcome to My Rash and Third, to Robert Brustein's Spring Forward, Fall Back, Neena Beber's Jump/Cut, and Richard Greenberg's Bal Masque. In addition to season offerings, Roth led Theater J to become known for its discussion programming, Beyond the Stage. Peter Marks has described the Theater J post-show discussion format as "a chance to digest and puzzle out en masse, in an entirely exhilarating way." Mosaic Theater Company of DC Founded by Roth in 2014, Mosaic Theater Company of DC is dedicated to creating independent, intercultural, uncensored,