Mark Medoff (March 18, 1940 â€" April 23, 2019) was an American
playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and
professor. His play Children of a Lesser God received both the Tony
Award and the Olivier Award. He was nominated for an Academy Award and
a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film
script of Children of a Lesser God and for a Cable ACE Award for his
HBO Premiere movie, Apology. He also received an Obie Award for his
play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?[citation needed] Medoff's
feature film Refuge was released in 2010.When You Comin' Back, Red
Ryder? was adapted into a film with a screenplay by Medoff in
1979.Medoff was born on 18 March 1940 in Mount Carmel, Illinois, to a
Jewish family, the son of Thelma Irene (Butt), a psychologist, and
Lawrence R. Medoff, a physician. He was raised in Miami Beach. In
1967, while working as an instructor at the Capitol Radio Engineering
Institute in Washington, D.C., he wrote his first play, The Wager. His
first play to be staged in New York City was When You Comin' Back, Red
Ryder?, which won him the 1974 Drama Desk and Obie Awards for
Outstanding New Playwright.Medoff received his Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of Miami and his Master's from Stanford
University. Medoff also received an honorary degree in 1981 from
Gallaudet University.
playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and
professor. His play Children of a Lesser God received both the Tony
Award and the Olivier Award. He was nominated for an Academy Award and
a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film
script of Children of a Lesser God and for a Cable ACE Award for his
HBO Premiere movie, Apology. He also received an Obie Award for his
play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?[citation needed] Medoff's
feature film Refuge was released in 2010.When You Comin' Back, Red
Ryder? was adapted into a film with a screenplay by Medoff in
1979.Medoff was born on 18 March 1940 in Mount Carmel, Illinois, to a
Jewish family, the son of Thelma Irene (Butt), a psychologist, and
Lawrence R. Medoff, a physician. He was raised in Miami Beach. In
1967, while working as an instructor at the Capitol Radio Engineering
Institute in Washington, D.C., he wrote his first play, The Wager. His
first play to be staged in New York City was When You Comin' Back, Red
Ryder?, which won him the 1974 Drama Desk and Obie Awards for
Outstanding New Playwright.Medoff received his Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of Miami and his Master's from Stanford
University. Medoff also received an honorary degree in 1981 from
Gallaudet University.
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