Barbara Romer

{{Short description|German film producer}}

{{Notability|Bio|date=September 2014}}Barbara Romer, born 1970 in Bielefeld, is a German film producer,{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118052482/?refCatId=13|title='Seagull' takes flight with starry ensemble|last=Sneider|first=Jeff|date=April 10, 2012|work=Variety|accessdate=5 September 2014}} a former management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a former manager at Soho House.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7378518/New-Yorks-Soho-House-purges-members-to-regain-its-cool.html|title=New York's Soho House purges members to regain its 'cool'|last=Whitworth|first=Melissa|date=March 5, 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=5 September 2014}} Romer is the founder of the New Globe Theater,[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/arts/design/26glob.html?_r=0 "For Shakespeare, A Home That's A Castle,"] The New York Times February 26, 2005 an organization that proposed building a contemporary Shakespearean Globe.{{cite news|url=http://observer.com/2006/04/lullaby-of-bardland-pacino-hoffman-back-shakespeare-island/|title=Lullaby of Bardland: Pacino, Hoffman Back Shakespeare Island|last=Sicha|first=Choire|date=April 3, 2006|work=The New York Observer|accessdate=5 September 2014}} Norman Foster was the proposed project's architect.{{cite news|url=http://m.playbill.com/news/article/a-globe-theatre-for-new-york-suggested-for-governors-island |title=A Globe Theatre for New York Suggested for Governor's Island |authorlink1=Robert Simonson|last=Simonson |first=Robert |date=28 Feb 2005 |work=Playbill |accessdate=5 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912225358/http://m.playbill.com/news/article/a-globe-theatre-for-new-york-suggested-for-governors-island |archivedate=12 September 2014 }}

Romer graduated from Princeton University in 1993{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/mc/v2/Romer/|title=Major Choices, Vol.II - Romer|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=5 September 2014}} and received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1998.