The acclaimed Broadway producer, fashion provocateur, and publisher-in-waiting might be coming off a blockbuster year, but he's far from staging his final act.

Photography by Aingeru Zorita&nbsp;

Fashion by Ryan Young

When speaking with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jordan_roth/?hl=en" target="_blank">Jordan Roth</a>, one of the first things you notice about him is the methodical, almost meditative way he replies to questions.&nbsp;There is a sense that every response, every exchange, is an opportunity to engage in something beyond simple conversation.&nbsp;That deliberateness of&nbsp;address is perhaps indicative of a deeper&nbsp;passion&nbsp;that has lead Roth to become one of&nbsp;today&rsquo;s&nbsp;most successful and acclaimed&nbsp;Broadway&nbsp;producers&mdash;he has four Tony Awards as a producer&nbsp;to his name&mdash;with a string of award-winning&nbsp;and blockbuster&nbsp;credits,&nbsp;Book of Mormon,&nbsp;Frozen,&nbsp;the revival of&nbsp;Angels in America,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Clybourne&nbsp;Park,&nbsp;among them.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Now, at 43, Roth&nbsp;has&nbsp;set his sights beyond the&nbsp;buzzing&nbsp;incandescence of the Great White Way. Over the past several years,&nbsp;his&nbsp;flair for&nbsp;avant-garde, gender-fluid fashion&nbsp;has landed him front-row seats at Paris couture, red carpet buzz at the Met Gala,&nbsp;and the admiration of no less than Dame Anna Wintour&nbsp;(who once&nbsp;quipped to The New York Times&nbsp;that Roth&rsquo;s sartorial&nbsp;&eacute;lan&nbsp;was notable for &ldquo;taking a lot of risks&rdquo;).&nbsp;Talk about fashion world&nbsp;bona fides. And, if that wasn&rsquo;t enough, in 2017, Roth&nbsp;began publishing&nbsp;Warmly, Jordan, a newsletter&nbsp;&ldquo;magazine,&rdquo;&nbsp;and&nbsp;launched&nbsp;The Birds and the BS with Jordan Roth&nbsp;in&nbsp;2018, an online animated series that&rsquo;s decidedly not for children.&nbsp;Factor into&nbsp;this&nbsp;that Roth, along with his husband, television producer Richie Jackson, is a co-parent of two boys,&nbsp;and&nbsp;it becomes clear that Roth is a force of nature.&nbsp;

While Roth undoubtedly has bigger projects in the future&mdash;one can imagine a Netflix documentary &agrave; la&nbsp;7&nbsp;Days Out&mdash;theater remains&nbsp;his touchstone and his life-blood. Indeed, in the&nbsp;&ldquo;Age of Trump,&rdquo;&nbsp;Roth is perhaps even more vocal about the power of the stage to comment on and explore truths&nbsp;of today&rsquo;s&nbsp;society. Take the 2018 Broadway revival of&nbsp;Angels in America.&nbsp;Work&nbsp;had begun on&nbsp;staging the production well before&nbsp;Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;election,&nbsp;but&nbsp;the centrality of Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner&rsquo;s&nbsp;play&nbsp;and the larger-than-life&nbsp;role Cohn had&nbsp;in&nbsp;Trump&rsquo;s life make for a twist of fate that can&rsquo;t be scripted. &ldquo;When we&nbsp;all came to see&nbsp;Angels in America,&rdquo; Roth notes,&nbsp;&ldquo;we thought it was about a prophecy, and it turns out it was the prophecy.&rdquo;&nbsp;He continues,&nbsp;&ldquo;The fact that Tony focused on Roy Cohn and that Cohn was a mentor to Trump&nbsp;means that we&rsquo;re talking not just talking metaphorically about the seeds that were sown by Cohn&nbsp;and&nbsp;that have grown to full strength now&mdash;we&#39;re talking literally.&rdquo;&nbsp;

When pressed to explain&nbsp;how&nbsp;theater can bring&nbsp;such pressing issues&nbsp;to the fore, Roth&mdash;who was a dual Philosophy and Theater major at Princeton&mdash;pauses before replying with a characteristically nuanced meditation upon the art form:&nbsp;&ldquo;The illusion of theater is&nbsp;at&nbsp;once not real, and so very real,&rdquo; Roth points out.&nbsp;&ldquo;It is through storytelling, through character, through illusion&nbsp;that we&nbsp;see&nbsp;who we are, why we are, and who we could be.&rdquo;&nbsp;In&nbsp;the worlds Roth helps to&nbsp;create, the power of illusion&nbsp;is&nbsp;an &ldquo;essential way of helping us move through the world,&rdquo; a framing device that allows us to imagine what is, and can be, possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;

But, if Roth merchants in the power of fantasy and &ldquo;what ifs,&rdquo; he is decidedly grounded by the reality of his personal experiences, with fashion becoming an ever more important vehicle for him.&nbsp;&ldquo;I can put something on because I want to feel a certain way, and the clothes will take me there, they will&nbsp;lift me&nbsp;to the feeling that I want to be experiencing in myself,&nbsp;Roth notes. &ldquo;And, of course, that&#39;s the sort of outward-in,&nbsp;but the&nbsp;inward-out&mdash;how we choose&nbsp;to present ourselves to others&mdash;is in many ways the clearest and boldest expression&nbsp;of self.&rdquo;&nbsp;He concludes,&nbsp;&ldquo;I feel most authentic&nbsp;when I am holding both my masculine and my feminine in my hands at the same time. Exploring fashion in the way that I have, is a very meaningful way for me to dig through what I mean by that&nbsp;and also to manifest it.&rdquo;&nbsp;

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CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES BY SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO

Hair:&nbsp;Rutger Hauer (The Wall Group)

Grooming:&nbsp;Asami Mastuda&nbsp;(Artlist NY)&nbsp;using Bioderma

Digital Technician: James Yarunsinsky

Lighting:&nbsp;Scott Fitzpatrick and Chris White

Stylist assistant:&nbsp;Prakash Servai&nbsp;

Location:&nbsp;Simple Studios

Jordan Roth Takes Center Stage

Jordan Roth Takes Center Stage

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