Roger Furman (March 22, 1924 – November 27, 1983) was an African American actor, director, playwright, and producer.
[3] Furman's career began in Harlem in the 1940s, when he worked as an actor with the American Negro Theater.
[4][5] He worked in various roles on movies, including set designer for The Cool World (1963), actor in Maya Angelou's Georgia, Georgia (1972), casting assistant for Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972), and assistant director (to Ossie Davis) in Cotton Comes to Harlem.
[3] In 1972, Furman directed the WPA Theater Company's production of The Threepenny Opera, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald.
[3] The Roger Furman Theatre (at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) is named for him.