Overview

• Roundabout’s board has appointed Rebecca Habel as managing director, with her consultancy commencing in fall 2025 and her full-time tenure beginning in January 2026.
• The dual model will pair Habel’s administrative leadership with incoming artistic director Christopher Ashley’s programming vision.
• The board’s yearlong search enlisted Management Consultants for the Arts and involved interim leaders Scott Ellis, Sydney Beers and Christopher Nave.
• Habel returns after serving as general manager of Roundabout’s Off-Broadway Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center and Broadway Todd Haimes Theatre from 2005 to 2011.
• Her appointment follows the succession plan triggered by longtime director Todd Haimes’s 2023 passing.