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- Jordan Roth is an American actor, artist, creative director, and seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer whose work spans theater, television, performance art, and fashion.
Roth co-stars in the FX television series The Shards (2026), created by Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, portraying the recurring role of Steven Reinhardt.
In 2025, Roth debuted Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty at the Louvre in Paris during Haute Couture Week, marking his emergence as a performance artist. The work, presented in the Cour Marly before an audience that included Thom Browne and Zac Posen, established his practice of Narrative Fashion Performance: a multidisciplinary form exploring transformation, identity, and the relationship between fashion and the body. In 2026, Performance Space New York invited Roth to expand that practice at the Venice Biennale, where he staged a new site-specific work at the Palazzo dei Fiori inspired by Renaissance painter Irene di Spilimbergo.
As an accomplished Broadway producer, Roth has earned seven Tony Awards. During his tenure as president of Jujamcyn Theaters from 2009 to 2023, he oversaw productions including The Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Springsteen on Broadway, Company, Into the Woods, and the revival of Angels in America, which broke records as the most Tony-nominated play in Broadway history. His upcoming production of Galileo, opens December 6, 2026, at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Following Jujamcyn's 2023 merger with Ambassador Theatre Group, Roth became creative director of ATG Entertainment.
Beyond theater, Roth has become a prominent figure in fashion and contemporary culture. Roth has attended the Met Gala for eight consecutive years, appeared at Paris Haute Couture Week and New York Fashion Week, and been photographed by David LaChapelle, Steven Klein, and Paolo Roversi for Vogue Portugal, L'Officiel, Paper, and Purple. Through social media, he shares artistic projects, cultural commentary, and explorations of fashion as a form of storytelling and self-expression with more than two million followers across social media.
Roth graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with degrees in philosophy and theater, and received his MBA from Columbia Business School. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Broadway League, Freedom to Marry, Times Square Alliance, Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation and the Center for Youth Mental Health.
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- SpouseRichie Jackson(September 8, 2012 - present)
- Served as president of Jujamcyn Theaters for over a decade before its 2023 merger with ATG Entertainment, where he now serves as creative director, freeing him to expand into performance art and fashion.
- Son of Daryl Roth and Steven Roth of New York City; Son-in-law of Carol Jackson and Paul Jackson. Became a stepfather, upon marrying Richie Jackson, of Jackson Foo Wong (from Richie's longtime former partner, BD Wong).
- Premiered a new performance work at the 2026 Venice Biennale, staged at the Palazzo dei Fiori in collaboration with Performance Space New York, in which he channeled Renaissance painter Irene di Spilimbergo before an audience that included Whitney Museum director Scott Rothkopf, confirming an ongoing performance art practice rather than a single project.
- Made his debut as a performance artist in July 2025 with Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, a three-act live work staged in the Cour Marly of the Musée du Louvre during Paris Haute Couture Week, marking his transition from behind-the-scenes producer to public-facing artist. The piece was attended by Thom Browne, Michèle Lamy, and Zac Posen.
- Wore a custom Robert Wun "living sculpture" gown to the 2026 Met Gala, his eighth appearance at the event, inspired by Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting Pygmalion and Galatea and built around a three-dimensional figure attached to the dress, describing the look as an exploration of "the body as both subject and object, both viewer and viewed, both artist and art.
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