Barry Grove

Barry Grove is in his 47th year as the Executive Producer of the Manhattan Theatre Club where, in partnership with Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, he has produced nearly 450 American and world premieres. Since its founding in 1970, MTC productions have earned 27 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 40 Drama Desk Awards, as well as numerous Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World Awards and, in 2001, the prestigious Jujamcyn Award. Among the numerous plays produced by MTC, recent productions include Skeleton Crew, Ink, Choir Boy, Saint Joan, The Children, Heisenberg, August Wilson’s Jitney, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, The Father, Fool for Love, Constellations.

Mr. Grove is a member of the Broadway League Board of Governors and Tony Administration Committee, a former member of the LORT Board of Directors, and is a trustee of the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds. He has served as President of the Off-Broadway League and the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, as Treasurer of TCG and as a Board Member of BC/EFA. He has also served on numerous panels, including a term as Chairman of the theatre panel for both the NEA and the New York State Council on the Arts. He received the 2000 Edith Oliver Award for sustained Excellence Off-Broadway, the Arts and Business Council’s 1997 Arts Management Excellence Award, and a citation from the New York City Council, which declared June 4, 1990, “Barry Grove Day.” A Dartmouth graduate, he is a past Chairman and Member of the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center/Hood Museum of Art. Mr. Grove has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and is a lecturer at Yale University.