Daniel Roberts (born 1969) is a writer, investor, and philanthropist.

Early life and career

Daniel Roberts is the author of a USA Today best-selling novel, ''Bar Maid'' Arcade Press (Simon and Schuster) November 2021. His first. His second novel ''Ponder'' (Arcade Press; Simon and Schuster) will be released October 8, 2024. Daniel graduated with a B.A. (1991) and M.A. (1994) from

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. He edited the literary magazine ''Press'' from 1995 to 2001. He was the founder of the Audax Theatre Group and publisher of ''The Hineni Writer's Workshop Review''. He is the author of a number of plays. In 2001, with his brother Sam, he wrote the OOBR Award-winning play ''The Beginning of the And''. Other works include ''Last Day'', starring Heather Raffo, and ''Brando'', starring Kate Roe and Dante Giammarco, and featuring Nina Wheeler-Chalfin, which ''

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'' called "An impressive piece of writing ... recalling

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". Then there was ''Frankie'' starring Kristina Klebe, ''The Gold Standard'' starring Sabine Singh and Jordan Charney, and ''Monsterface'' starring Sarah Grace Wilson and Ted Schneider, and featuring Karen Lynn Gorney. In addition to literary pursuits, Roberts worked with the Boikarabelo, an orphanage in

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and, from 2004 until 2015, taught college-level poetry to 4th graders at PS 375/Mosaic Academy in

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. In 2009 Roberts wrote a play entitled ''Haunted House'' featuring Anna Wood and Jordan Charney, which was described by ''

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'' as "sparklingly original...with "characters that stick". In 2006, Roberts founded MAPS Inc. MAPS brings together school children of different backgrounds through artistic collaboration and live performances of student-made, original works on a professional stage. Daniel Roberts is a New York City based venture capitalist and private investor who works in tech, bio-tech, alternative healthcare and home diagnostics.

Personal life

Daniel Roberts's late uncle John Roberts was one of two entrepreneurs responsible for the conception and production of the

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concerts of 1969 and 1994. The ''Mahogany Roberts'', a

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from 2001 through 2013. A first edition of ''Press'' magazine, which Roberts edited from 1995 to 2001, was hung in the barroom of The

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. Daniel Roberts' father William Roberts owned the Eclipse Award-winning

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racehorse Smoke Glacken. Roberts' late mother, Jill Roberts, founded The Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell's Stich Building on East 70th Street in

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. The Center opened in September 2006 under the direction of Dr. Ellen Scherl. He lives and works in New York City with his young daughter.

References

External links

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Audax website
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