Warren Caro

Born in Brooklyn, Caro was educated at Cornell University; earning both a bachelor's degree and a law degree from that institution.[1] He worked for ten years as a lawyer in New York City before becoming a theater executive.[1]

Caro was the executive director of the Theatre Guild from 1946 through 1967.[1] That organization was awarded two Special Tony Awards (both of which were presented to Caro); largely resulting from Caro's work creating the American Theatre Society National Subscription Program (ATSNSP), the American Theatre Guild Repertory Company, and establishing a Theatre Guild anthology play series for television, The United States Steel Hour.[3] The ATSNSP toured Broadway productions to 21 cities throughout North America with a subscription base.[3] It was the first program to use a subscription series for touring Broadway productions on national tour; a model that has sense been widely replicated.[3] He was a top executive with The Shubert Organization from 1967 through 1980; serving as director of theater operations and projects development director.[1]

Caro was one of the American delegates and charter signers for the establishment of the United Nations's International Theatre Institute in 1948.[4] He was a member of the advisory committee for the establishment of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[1][3] In collaboration with John Shubert and Broadway producer Richard Aldrich, he played an instrumental leadership role in designing and establishing the American National Theater and Academy's e "Forty Theatre Circuit Plan" in 1955; a plan designed to bring high quality American plays with critically established performers to regional theaters throughout the United States.[5] He also served a tenure as chairman of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[1]

Married three times, Caro's second marriage was to actress Nancy Kelly in 1955.[1] They had one daughter, Kelly Caro-Rosenberg, and divorced in 1968.[1]