Rose Caiola
Rose Caiola is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Manhattan Movement & Arts Center (mmac), a state-of-the-art dance and movement classroom, studio and performance facility near Lincoln Center, and Manhattan Youth Ballet, one of the country’s premier classical ballet academies.
Rose conceived, co-wrote, and produced the Off-Broadway premiere of the Outer Critics and Lucille Lortel-nominated Freckleface Strawberry The Musical, based on Julianne Moore’s children’s book, which premiered at New World Stages and is currently being licensed worldwide by Music Theatre International. Rose is also a co-bookwriter and lead producer of Rock and Roll Man — The Alan Freed Story, which had its New York premiere Off-Broadway at New World Stages in 2023, winning the AUDELCO Award for Best Musical of the Year. In early 2026, Rock and Roll Man is embarking on a 4-city UK tour and heading for the West End.
An eight-time Tony Award® winning producer, Rose made her debut as a Broadway producer in 2011 with the historic revival of Godspell by Stephen Schwartz. Since then, partnering with her brother Luigi Caiola, Caiola Productions’ award-winning productions include Parade and Company (both winners of the Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical), The Inheritance (Tony Award® for Best Play), Once on this Island (Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical), Dear Evan Hansen (winner of 6 Tony Awards® including Best Musical), The Color Purple (winner of 2 Tony Awards® for Best Musical Revival and Best Leading Actress), All The Way starring Bryan Cranston (winner of 2 Tony Awards® for Best Play and Best Leading Actor), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (winner of 3 Tony Awards® for Best Revival of a Play, Best Director, and Best Leading Actor). Caiola Productions is also the winner of seven Drama Desk Awards for Parade and The Piano Lesson (2023), Company (2022), The Inheritance (2020), The Elephant Man (2015), All The Way (2014), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2013).
Past Broadway productions include American Buffalo, Jagged Little Pill, Pretty Woman the Musical, Lifespan of a Fact, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, An Act of God, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Sunday in the Park with George, Significant Other, Sylvia, On Your Feet, China Doll, and Spring Awakening, You Can’t Take It With You, The Elephant Man , It’s Only A Play, An American in Paris, The Realistic Joneses, The Bridges of Madison County Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Glengarry Glen Ross starring Al Pacino and Glengarry Glen Ross starring Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk, The Heiress, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, The Anarchist starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, and Godspell. Off-Broadway, Caiola Productions has been represented by Sondheim’s Here We Are, Little Shop of Horrors, Daddy Long Legs and Nevermore — the Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. On tour, Caiola Productions has been a co-producer of Porgy & Bess, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Fiddler on the Roof, others.
Rose was the executive producer of the award-winning 2012 documentary First Position, a property she is currently developing for the musical stage.
Rose began her career as a dancer and actress, and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.