Robert Ahrens (born 1970)[1] is a film and theatrical producer based in New York City.
[2] He graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Working as an assistant to an executive at Paramount Pictures at the time, he pursued the rights to Xanadu and its soundtrack by the Electric Light Orchestra and swiftly began courting writer Douglas Carter Beane to write the book.
He has presented Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and The Temptations and The Four Tops on Broadway.
He produced the long-running hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan starring Jonathan Groff and Christian Borle and directed by Michael Mayer.