Lynn Rogoff is an American film and television producer, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, and academic. She is best known for writing the 1979 Emmy Award winning documentary film No Maps on My Taps and the 1983 play Love, Ben Love, Emma; the latter of which examines the correspondence between Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman. She is an associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology.
Early life and education
editBorn in New York City, Rogoff is the daughter of the veterinarian, George Rogoff, past President of the Bronx Veterinary Society and founder of the Veterinary Medical Association of New York City Journal.[1] She is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Directing. In 1979 she was one of eight individuals accepted into the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation's internship program.[2][3] In 1980 she became a fellow in the Writers Guild of America, East's Screen and Television Writing Fellowship program which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.[4]
Career
editRogoff was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for writing the 1979 documentary film No Maps on My Taps.[5] No Maps on My Taps was produced on grants from the AFI, PBS, the CPB, the Ford Foundation and the NEA.[6] The film focuses on three black tap dancers who had fallen on hard times but had started dancing again.[7] No Maps on My Taps won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Direction in News and Documentary.[8] In 2017 the film was restored and featured at Tap City, the American Tap Dance Foundation's annual festival.[9]
Rogoff assisted producer Rupert Hitzig on the film Wolfen (1981).[10] In 1983 she was selected to be the United States' representative to the United Nations's women's series project.[11] This included a conference held jointly between the U.N. and the New York chapter of the American Association of Women in Radio and Television.[11]
Rogoff penned the play Love, Ben Love, Emma which is based on correspondence between Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman.[12][13][14] The play was originally produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut in 1983,[15][16] starring Kevin O'Connor, Penelope Allen, and Martha Greenhouse.[17] In 2020, Love, Ben Love, Emma had its Chicago premiere, produced by the Wayward Sister's Theatre Company.[18]
Rogoff's television work includes Sesame Street,[19] and Big Blue Marble.[20] She wrote Freedom Fighters: Freedom and Justice for African Americans.[21]
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.[22] Sera-Lys McArthur voices Sacajawea. Daniel TwoFeathers voices Chief Cameahwait.[23][failed verification]
As a stage director, she has directed The Labyrinth by Fernando Arrabal (1973, NYU),[24] A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1974, The Atlas Room at NYU),[25] Attempted Rescue On Avenue B by Megan Terry (1975, Cubiculo Theatre),[26] and The In-Crowd, a rock opera by J. E. Franklin (1977, Henry Street Settlement).[27]
Rogoff penned the narrative for the multimedia game Pony Express Rider; a product which was showcased at the Electric Entertainment Expo (E3) in 1996.[28] That same year she advocated for writing for interactive media at the 1996 Show Biz Expo on behalf of the Writers Guild of America.[29]
Rogoff serves as an associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)[30] where she received the Presidential Excellence Award in New York City.[31] In 2013, she received a research award from the NYIT to develop her GreenKids Media Endanger series at the university.[32]
References
edit- ^ "DR. GEORGE ROGOFF". The New York Times. March 3, 1961. p. 27. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ "Astoria Program Selects Eight". Backstage. 7 (40): 4. October 5, 1979.
- ^ "Pictures Grosses: Interns For Astoria". Variety. 296 (9): 22. October 3, 1979.
- ^ "Local Radio-Television: Writers Guild Selects 8 Fellows For TV-Pix Coin". Variety. 300 (2): 54. August 13, 1980.
- ^ "WGF Inmagic Presto". The Writers Guild Foundation. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ No Maps on My Taps. California Public Broadcasting Commission. January 1979. p. 36.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ 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.
- ^ Joan Acocella (June 30, 2017). ""No Maps on My Taps" Is Back: The great, elegiac documentary on tap dance is restored". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Pictures: New York Sound Track". Variety. 302 (9): 26. April 1, 1981.
- ^ a b "Changing Hands: UN-AWRT conference examines problems of women in broadcasting". Broadcasting. 104 (6): 81. February 7, 1983.
- ^ "doollee.com - the playwrights database of modern plays". www.doollee.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2008. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ Rogoff, Lynn (1983). Love, Ben, love, Emma: a play in three acts. OCLC 797010091.
- ^ Alice Wexler (1989). Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War. Beacon Press. pp. 248–249. ISBN 9780807070475.
- ^ "Legitimate: Circle Rep Tryout Of Three Plays At Lortel's White Barn". Variety. 315 (9): 91. June 27, 1984.
- ^ Lortel, Lucille (June 28, 1984). "White Barn Theatre Opening Season of New Plays July 13". Norwalk, Connecticut: The Hour. p. 8. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ Markland Taylor, ed. (1997). The White Barn Theatre : 50 years, 1947-1997. Westport, Connecticut: White Barn Theatre.
- ^ "Love, Ben Love, Emma". Wayward Sisters Theatre. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
- ^ George W. Woolery (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-five Years, 1946-1981. Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. Scarecrow Press.
- ^ Chance, Norman (2010). Who Was Who on TV, volume 1. Xlibris Corporation. p. 159. ISBN 9781456821296. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Bird Woman (TV Mini Series) - IMDb, retrieved September 5, 2021
- ^ LLC, New York Media (December 24, 1973). "New York Magazine". New York Media, LLC. Retrieved May 15, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Legitimate Theatre Section: Streetcar Named Desire". Backstage. 15 (3): 22. January 18, 1974.
- ^ John A. Willis, ed. (1976). "Attempted Rescue On Avenue B". Theatre World. 31. Crown Publishers: 104.
- ^ "New Musical". Backstage. 17 (51): 29. December 17, 1976.
- ^ Diorio, Carl (May 30, 1996). "TECH talk". The Hollywood Reporter. 342: 13. ProQuest 2362049230.
- ^ Diorio, Carl; Waldman, Alan (June 28, 1996). "Show Me The Way". The Hollywood Reporter. 342: Page S-4. ProQuest 2362123431.
- ^ "Lynn Rogoff - Bio - NYIT". www.nyit.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ "Past Presidential Award Recipients | President | New York Tech". www.nyit.edu. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
- ^ "NYIT Announces Internal Grants for Research". www.tmcnet.com. Retrieved May 15, 2018.