DGA Re-Signs Roth to 2005

The Directors Guild of America said Monday that its board has unanimously voted to renew Jay D. Roth’s contract as national executive director through 2005.

Roth, formerly an attorney representing labor organizations, assumed the guild’s top management post in 1995; his current contract is not to expire until 2000.

DGA President Jack Shea said the early renewal “lets our employers know that the DGA will continue to have strong, skillful leadership well into the next millennium.” The DGA, which represents film and television directors, is to negotiate a new multiyear collective-bargaining agreement next year.