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    Scott Roth gets 3-year extension as ADG exec director

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    Scott Roth

    By LOS ANGELES

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    Scott Roth, executive director of the Art Directors Guild (ADG/Local 800, IATSE), has been granted a three-year extension to his contract by the Guild’s board of directors, effective January 1, 2015, it was announced by the ADG president, Mimi Gramatky. Roth will have served the ADG for 20 years by 2017. He joined ADG as its executive director in 1997. He also serves on the board of directors of the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans and on the Western Region Council of the Actors Fund.

    Roth previously was associate general counsel of the Directors Guild of America from 1983 to 1988. He also handled business affairs for various film production companies and maintained his own law firm. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. His wife, Grace Reiner, is VP of business affairs at the Disney Channel.

    The ADG represents more than 2,000 members who work throughout the United States, Canada and the rest of the world in film, television and theater as production designers, art directors, assistant art directors; scenic, title and graphic artists; illustrators, matte artists, set designers, model makers, and previs artists.




    “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025
    Cynthia Erivo attends the National Board of Review Awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical "Wicked," was named Tuesday as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

    The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world's third-oldest still operating, said Erivo will receive her Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast Feb. 5. Afterward, she will attend a performance of Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 176th production, "101 Damnations." Actor Jon Hamm, who came to fame starring as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series "Mad Men," is the 2025 Man of the Year. He will receive his Pudding Pot Jan. 31.

    "We are holding space for Cynthia Erivo's arrival," Man and Woman of the Year Events Coordinator Hannah Frazer said in a statement. "We're sweeping out our broomstick closets and prepping some wicked smart humor as we eagerly await her in February. Before she flies off with her Pudding Pot, she'll have to work a little magic to earn it."

    Along with starirng in the smash hit musical, the British entertainer is a two-time Oscar nominee and an Emmy Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award winner.

    Erivo burst onto the scene with her brilliant performance in the Broadway revival of "The Color Purple." winning her the 2016 Tony for best actress in a musical. She performed songs from the play on the "Today" show, earning the Daytime Emmy for outstanding music performance in a daytime program. And the show's soundtrack won best musical theater album at the 2017 Grammys.

    Last year, Erivo starred in and produced "Drift," which follows a young Liberian refugee who has escaped her war-torn country to a Greek island. In 2021, Erivo was nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Aretha Franklin in the National Geographic series "Genius:... Read More

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