About me…

SUSAN R. ROSE is a Tony Award-winning theatrical producer, as well as a film producer. She was born and raised in Baltimore, MD., and graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in Communications. While in Baltimore, she had the opportunity to work at Painter's Mill Music Fair and the Mechanic Theatre in an administrative capacity.

Upon graduating from college, Rose produced the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, at the historic Ford's Theatre in DC (1980). When it arrived on Broadway in 1982, Rose was the youngest person to have produced a Broadway show. The musical was an instant smash hit and Rose was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Her other Broadway producing credits include David Rabe's Hurlyburly (Tony Award nomination, Best Play), Athol Fugard's Bloodknot (Tony Award nomination, Best Revival of a Play), and Larry Shue's The Nerd – all hits. Off-Broadway, she produced the Drama Desk Award-winning musical The Last Five Years (with Renee Landegger). Also with Landegger, she commissioned the World Premiere of The Secret Letters of Jackie and Marilyn (Pittsburgh Public Theatre) and Sabina (Primary Stages). Rose and Joan Stein co-created and produced the play Motherhood Out Loud, written by fourteen award-winning writers. Rose was a co-producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of The Band’s Visit, Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, the Broadway production of The Who’s Tommy: The Musical (2024 Tony Award nomination), and Broadway’s ILLINOISE (Justin Peck/Sufjan Stevens), Best Musical Tony Award Nominee and the Winner of 2024 Tony Award for Best Choreography (Justin Peck). This season, Rose is co-producing the Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, coming to The Palace Theatre in March 2025.

Susan has enjoyed a successful film career as a producer. Her first film, A Child Lost Forever, was an NBC Movie of the Week, starring Beverly D'Angelo. Susan has produced movies for CBS, Showtime and Lifetime. Her movies include Mr. and Mrs. Loving starring Timothy Hutton, Best Friends For Life starring Gena Rowlands and Linda Lavin, the Emmy-nominated Cooler Climate starring Sally Field and Judy Davis, Custody of the Heart starring Lorraine Bracco, and the Emmy-winning Jack starring Stockard Channing and Ron Silver.

Susan has co-authored two children’s books José and El Perro & José and Feliz Play Fútbol with Penguin Workshop. These early readers are an introduction to the Spanish language for English speaking children and Bilingual families. JUST CONFIRMED: The third José book, Happy Birthday José and Feliz, will be published in 2026. Want to know more? Click here.

Susan is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and International Women’s Forum.

Susan is on the Board of the not-for-profit theatre company The TEAM.