Barbara Romer
- Producer
Barbara Romer (born 13 December 1970) is a German-American film and
theatrical producer. She is the Founder of the Globe Theatre.
Born 'Barbara Römer' in Bielefeld, Germany, she moved to the United States in 1986 to attend high school in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Japanese, and holds an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
In 1993, Romer moved to Tokyo to work for Christie's and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1994, she directed and produced a bilingual adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in Eastern Germany together with Eugene Jarecki, and subsequently worked at the Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar, France.
After completing her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in three years in England (at a time when Shakespeare's Globe Theatre opened on the Southbank), Romer joined McKinsey & Company as a management consultant in Munich, Germany in 1998. Transferring to the New York Office in 2000, she focused on Media & Entertainment and on Nonprofit Management.
In 2003, Romer left McKinsey and founded the New Globe Theater, to re-imagine a dilapidated military fortification in New York Harbor into a vibrant cultural and education center, working in partnership with Shakespeare's Globe and with an artistic board that included Al Pacino, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Mark Rylance, Estelle Parsons and Sam Mendes. Norman Foster was the proposed project's architect.
In 2012, Romer founded a film company with Juliet Rylance and produced a modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" written and directed by Christian Camargo and starring Katie Holmes, William Hurt, Allison Janney, Cherry Jones, Russell Means, Michael Nyqvist, Jean Reno, Mark Rylance, and Ben Whishaw.
She resides in New York City.
Born 'Barbara Römer' in Bielefeld, Germany, she moved to the United States in 1986 to attend high school in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Japanese, and holds an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
In 1993, Romer moved to Tokyo to work for Christie's and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1994, she directed and produced a bilingual adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in Eastern Germany together with Eugene Jarecki, and subsequently worked at the Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar, France.
After completing her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in three years in England (at a time when Shakespeare's Globe Theatre opened on the Southbank), Romer joined McKinsey & Company as a management consultant in Munich, Germany in 1998. Transferring to the New York Office in 2000, she focused on Media & Entertainment and on Nonprofit Management.
In 2003, Romer left McKinsey and founded the New Globe Theater, to re-imagine a dilapidated military fortification in New York Harbor into a vibrant cultural and education center, working in partnership with Shakespeare's Globe and with an artistic board that included Al Pacino, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Mark Rylance, Estelle Parsons and Sam Mendes. Norman Foster was the proposed project's architect.
In 2012, Romer founded a film company with Juliet Rylance and produced a modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" written and directed by Christian Camargo and starring Katie Holmes, William Hurt, Allison Janney, Cherry Jones, Russell Means, Michael Nyqvist, Jean Reno, Mark Rylance, and Ben Whishaw.
She resides in New York City.