Early Life
The son of German-born refugees of the Holocaust, Roth was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory High School and the University of Michigan, where he studied playwriting with Milan Stitt (author of The Runner Stumbles) and Kenneth Thorpe Rowe (author of the textbook "Write that Play") and received his first of two Avery Hopwood Awards for Drama in 1981 from noted UM alum, playwright (and student of Thorpe Rowe) Arthur Miller.
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