The South Florida Business Journal named Barbara S. Stein, Executive Producing Director of Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, the 2006 Corporate Business Woman of the Year at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 on August 10, 2006. Chosen among women executives from Palm Beach to Miami-Dade County, Barbara Stein was acknowledged as co founder of Actors’ Playhouse in 1988 with husband Dr. Lawrence E. Stein, and for her leadership and vision in creating one of Florida’s eight major professional theatres, the largest producing company in the region, one of twenty-two major cultural organizations in Miami-Dade County. Actors’ Playhouse was recently recognized and honored as a Florida Presenting Organization by the Secretary of State. Actors’ Playhouse was originally located in a Kendall strip mall with a $250,000 budget. Now residing as the resident company and managing agent of the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables, the 501c3 non-profit organization has an annual operating budget of $4,250,000. Stein’s clear focus and vision for the company and the integrity of the Miracle Theatre, helps attract loyal supporters and donors. Working with a dedicated and passionate artistic team, Actors’ Playhouse partnered with the City of Coral Gables in 1994 to develop the historic Miracle Theatre into a state-of-the arts performance center. Ten years later, the three-stage facility operates year round attracting 175,000 theatre patrons to Miracle Mile. The restoration and renovation of the Miracle Theatre was the catalyst in the revitalization of downtown Coral Gables, a community with leading restaurants, art galleries, and retail boutiques. Stein is proud of the $7,000,000 capital project, which was completed on time and debt free. In October 2006, the book, The Miracle on the Mile will be unveiled commemorating the great community of supporters who financed and backed with the capital project.

Under the stewardship of Barbara Stein, Actors’ Playhouse has grown into an award- winning organization with a national reputation producing a six-show Mainstage and 5-show Children’s Theatre season, a Theatre Conservatory, an annual National Children’s Theatre Festival, while also managing the Miracle Theatre for rentals to outside groups. The theatre is regarded as a South Florida musical theatre powerhouse with its seven Carbonell Awards in 2006 including “Best Production of a Musical,” for Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. Stein works with a team of talented artistic staff and dedicated support staff to achieve her goals. In addition she works tirelessly with her husband, a practicing dentist who is Chairman of the Board, along with a devoted Board of Directors and active Advisory Board. Barbara plans on expanding upon the fiscally sound organization for the future of Actors’ Playhouse by embarking on a planned giving program to increase the endowment fund. Active in a gamete of civic organizations including Trustee member of the Coral Gables and ChamberSouth Chambers, member of the Greater Miami Chamber, the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Coral Gables Rotary Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Dade Alumnae Club, Stein considers her leadership experiences to be the impetus for her success. Stein says, “Hard work, sincerity, and follow through are my guidelines for building my friendships and relationships. My business partners are now my life-long friends.” Stein has been acknowledged as one of 65 “Florida Women of Achievement” in an annual photographic exhibit for Woman’s History Month, named “Marketer of the Year”, by the Dade County Branch of the American Marketing Association, received the Coral Gables Chamber “Diamond Award” for business excellence and was named the “2006 Coral Gables Chamber Corporate Business Woman of the Year.” Stein was also recognized with the Greater Miami Region of Hadassah’s “Women Who Make The Difference” Award, and the American Red Cross “Spectrum Award for Culture.” In 2004, the Steins received the “Ruth Foreman Award” at the 29th Carbonell Ceremony for their “development of Actors’ Playhouse, saving a historic site, and for nourishing the arts in South Florida.” Barbara’s most important achievement is her two daughters, Elaine Stein of New York General Council of TBWA Worldwide, and Stephanie Stein of Los Angeles, President of Swivel Industries.