Current Executive Producer Emeritus, Manhattan Theatre Club
Barry Grove was born in Madison, Connecticut. He received his degree in Theater from Dartmouth College. During his time in college, Grove completed the inaugural National Theatre Institute semester at the Eugene O’Neil Theater Center. There he was a member of the touring ensemble and the company manager. He later went on to serve as the Assistant to the Director for Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971). Grove was the summer stock advance director, general manager and professor for the University of Rhode Island before finding a home at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1975. MTC productions, under the guidance of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Mr. Grove, have earned 23 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 48 Obie Awards, 39 Drama Desk Awards, and several Outer Critics Circle Awards. Grove serves as a member of the Broadway League Board of Governors, LORT Board of Directors, the Tony Administration Committee and is a trustee of the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds. He previously held the positions of President of the Off-Broadway League and the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, and as a Treasurer for Theatre Communications Group (TCG). In 2000, he received the Edith Oliver Award for his work in the Off-Broadway world, and in 2007 was awarded the Arts and Business Council’s Arts Management Excellence Award. He is an Adjunct Professor in Theatre Management at Columbia University and Yale.