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Haimes died of complications of osteosarcoma at the age of 66 on April 19.

Todd was a friend.

Todd was a true visionary, planting the seeds to cultivate theater for generations of audiences to come.

Todd Haimes Obituary

Todd Haimes, 2015Brent N. Clarke/WireImage

If you look in the dictionary under theater geek you would find Todds face, beaming with pride.

He was someone that Ive gotten to know, to respect, to love and to admire.

He was genuinely one of the kindest men Ive ever known.

WGA West building in Hollywood

In the late 1990s Haimes restored the historic Selwyn to become the flagship home for Roundabout on Broadway.