festival of new one-act plays, it received critical praise from The New York Times and New York Daily News, was named in "The Best Plays of 1997-1998" (Limelight Editions, 1998) and published by Dramatists Play Service in 1999); The Professor and the Whore; Terminal Connection (one of HB Playwrights Foundation's 1999 "Airport Plays", featuring Paula Gruskiewicz and Peter Birkenhead; produced by Play2C Theater Company in Berlin in 2011); and Love and Yearning in the Not-for-Profits (published by Smith and Kraus as part of "The Museum Plays" anthology). An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (from a translation by Carol Rocamora), The Seagull on 16th Street was produced by Theater J in 2009. John Vreeke directed a cast featuring Naomi Jacobson, Alexander Strain and Jerry Whiddon. A reexamination of Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty written by Roth with Adam Mckay, Adam Phillips, and Shira Piven. Still Waiting was produced alongside Waiting for Lefty during Theater J's 1997-98 Season, Roth's first as Artistic Director. Recent one-acts for various festivals include Staff Meeting (Theatre Lab Dramathon, 2011) and The Great White Undulating Orb In The Bed Between Us (Source Theatre Festival, 2008). Roth has been a member of the Dramatists Guild of America since 1987 and was a founding member of the HB Playwrights Foundation Writers Unit from 1993 to 2007. Roth's new play, My Brief But Calamitous Affair With The Minister of Culture & Censorship or Death of The Dialogic In The American Theater fictionalizes events leading up to the departure of an artistic director from the unnamed theater that he founded was read at Philadelphia's InterAct Theater (on the set of Seth Rozin's Settlements which dramatizes the story of a Jewish Community Center CEO who fires its theater's artistic director) Roth's play will receive its world premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in their Rehearsal Hall as part of Voices Festival Productions inaugural Middle East Festival in fall of 2022. Controversies In 2000, Roth launched a festival entitled "Voices from a Changing Israel" in conjunction with the four week run of David Hare's Via Dolorosa based on the playwright's experiences interviewing Arabs and Jews on a visit to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in 1998. Four staged readings were presented alongside Hare's play, including Motti Lerner's play, The Murder of Isaac, which "grappled with the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin." Other Festival readings that fall included Israela Margalit's Night