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As the son of New York Bohemian parents, my passion
for writing plays morphed into an equally passionate desire
to write screenplays when I discovered the screenplays
of Preston Sturges. After a successful production of a play
in New York, I moved to LA where I continue to write
family and romantic comedies, honoring Mr. Sturges'
​respect for honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.






SJ Roth's screenplay for the family comedy, The Chaperone, starring WWE superstar Triple  H and  Ariel Winter from the TV comedy hit, Modern Family, was produced by  the WWE (WorldWrestling Entertainment) and is now streaming on Prime Video and Tubi TV. 
 
 August 2019 his screenplay ROCKETGIRL was selected as alive table read by the SAG/AFTRA Table Read Series.

 January 2020 his play Blind Kisses was presented as a staged reading as part of The  Ensemble
Studio Theater's Winterfest. 

His plays have been produced and workshopped in:

 Los Angeles at The Ensemble Studio Theater, The Zephyr Theater, The Matrix Theater,  The Moving Arts Theater, The Stella Adler Theater and the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater; 

 New York City at the Belmont Playhouse,  The Brooklyn Academy of Music,  The Ensemble Studio Theater, The Manhattan Class Company,The New York Shakespeare Festival, New Voice, Primary Stages The Thirteenth Street Theater, The World Trade Center,

Connecticut at the Maxwell Anderson Playwrights Theater. 

He holds an MFA in Playwriting  from Carnegie Mellon University.


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