Lynn Rogoff
Lynn Rogoff is an American film, game and television producer, and stage playwright, theatre director and professor.
Born in New York City, she is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Directing.
Rogoff was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for writing the 1979 documentary film No Maps on My Taps.[1] No Maps on My Taps was produced on grants from the AFI, PBS, the CPB, the Ford Foundation and the NEA.[citation needed] The film focuses on three black tap dancers who had fallen on hard times but had started dancing again.[2] No Maps on My Taps won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Direction in News and Documentary.[3]
She sat as a judge for the National Endowment for the Humanities.[citation needed]
Rogoff was a Writers Guild of America, East Foundation Fellow, dramatizing two early twentieth-century American icons. She penned the play Love, Ben Love, Emma which is based on correspondence between Emma Goldman and Dr. Ben Reitman.[4][5] The play was originally produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut in 1983,[6] starring Kevin O'Connor, Penelope Allen[citation needed], and Martha Greenhouse[citation needed]. Judd Hirsch and Tovah Feldshuh starred in 1985 at The Actors Studio in New York City.[citation needed] In 1993, Love, Ben Love, Emma was staged in Los Angeles at the Tiffany Theatre starring J. T. Walsh and Lisa Richards.[citation needed] In 2020, Love, Ben Love, Emma had its Chicago premiere, produced by the Wayward Sister's Theatre Company.[7]
Rogoff's film work includes Sesame Street,[8][not in citation given] Big Blue Marble,[9] and Watch Your Mouth[citation needed] in the United States and Rechov Sumsum in Israel (Israeli Sesame Street).[citation needed] She wrote[10] Freedom Fighters: Freedom and Justice for African Americans.
In 2019, Rogoff's company wrote and produced Bird Woman, a magical realism audio drama series on the Native American life of Sacajawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.[11] Sera-Lys McArthur voices Sacajawea. Daniel TwoFeathers voices Chief Cameahwait.[12]
As a stage director, she has directed Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams,[citation needed] The Labyrinth by Fernando Arrabal,[13] Attempted Rescue by Megan Terry,[citation needed] and The In-Crowd, a rock opera by J. E. Franklin.[citation needed]
Rogoff serves as professor at New York Institute of Technology[14] where she received the Presidential Excellence Award in New York City.[15] In 2013, she received a research award from New York Institute of Technology to develop her GreenKids Media Endanger series at the University.[16]
Rogoff was born in New York City. She is the daughter of the veterinarian, Dr. George Rogoff, past President of the Bronx Veterinary Society and founder of the Veterinary Medical Association of New York City Journal.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "WGF Inmagic Presto". The Writers Guild Foundation. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ↑ Kisselgoff, Anna (March 22, 1981). "Dance View; TV's Recent Looks at Tap and Nijinsky". The New York Times. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
- ↑ Krafft, Rebecca; O'Doherty, Brian, eds. (1991). The Arts on Television, 1976-1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming. p. 211. ISBN 9780160359262. Retrieved September 8, 2021. Search this book on
- ↑ "doollee.com - the playwrights database of modern plays". www.doollee.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2008. Retrieved May 15, 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rogoff, Lynn (1983). Love, Ben, love, Emma: a play in three acts. OCLC 797010091. Search this book on
- ↑ Lortel, Lucille. "White Barn Theatre Opening Season of New Plays July 13". Norwalk, Connecticut: The Hour (newspaper). Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ↑ "Love, Ben Love, Emma". Wayward Sisters Theatre. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
- ↑ "Home". Writers Guild of America East. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ↑ Chance, Norman (2010). Who Was Who on TV, volume 1. p. 159. ISBN 9781456821296. Retrieved September 7, 2021. Search this book on
- ↑ "Freedom Fighters:Freedom and Justice for African Americans by Lynn Rogoff (1993)". www.ecrater.com. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ↑ "Bird Woman Audio Series". www.amerikids.com. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bird Woman (TV Mini Series) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-09-05[not in citation given]
- ↑ LLC, New York Media (December 24, 1973). "New York Magazine". New York Media, LLC. Retrieved May 15, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Lynn Rogoff - Bio - NYIT". www.nyit.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ↑ "Past Presidential Award Recipients | President | New York Tech". www.nyit.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ↑ "NYIT Announces Internal Grants for Research". www.tmcnet.com. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ↑ "DR. GEORGE ROGOFF". Retrieved May 15, 2018.
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