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Lynn Rogoff is an American film and television producer, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, and academic. She is best known for writing the 1979
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winning documentary film ''
No Maps on My Taps ''No Maps on My Taps'' is a 1979 American documentary film directed by George Nierenberg. The film recounts the history of tap dancing in America through the lives of three influential tap dancers, Chuck Green, Howard Sims, and Bunny Briggs, an ...
'' and the 1983 play ''Love, Ben Love, Emma''; the latter of which examines the correspondence between
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of th ...
and
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. She is an associate professor at the
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.


Early life and education

Born 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. She is a graduate of
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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. In 1980 she became a fellow in the
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's Screen and Television Writing Fellowship program which was funded by the
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.


Career

Rogoff was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for writing the 1979 documentary film ''
No Maps on My Taps ''No Maps on My Taps'' is a 1979 American documentary film directed by George Nierenberg. The film recounts the history of tap dancing in America through the lives of three influential tap dancers, Chuck Green, Howard Sims, and Bunny Briggs, an ...
''. ''No Maps on My Taps'' was produced on grants from the AFI, PBS, the CPB, the Ford Foundation and the NEA. The film focuses on three black
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s who had fallen on hard times but had started dancing again. ''No Maps on My Taps'' won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Direction in News and Documentary. In 2017 the film was restored and featured at
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, the American Tap Dance Foundation's annual festival. Rogoff assisted producer
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on the film '' Wolfen'' (1981). In 1983 she was selected to be the United States' representative to the
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's women's series project. 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. Rogoff penned the play ''Love, Ben Love, Emma'' which is based on correspondence between
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of th ...
and
Ben Reitman __NOTOC__ Ben Lewis Reitman M.D. (1879–1943) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor ("the hobo doctor"). He is best remembered today as one of radical Emma Goldman's lovers. Reitman was a flamboyant, eccentric character. Emma Goldm ...
. The play was originally produced by
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at the
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in
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in 1983, starring Kevin O'Connor,
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, and Martha Greenhouse. In 2020, ''Love, Ben Love, Emma'' had its Chicago premiere, produced by the Wayward Sister's Theatre Company. Rogoff's television work includes ''
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'', and ''
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''. She wrote ''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
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. Sera-Lys McArthur voices Sacajawea. Daniel TwoFeathers voices Chief Cameahwait. As a stage director, she has directed ''The Labyrinth'' by
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(1973, NYU), ''
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'' by
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(1974, The Atlas Room at NYU), ''Attempted Rescue On Avenue B'' by Megan Terry (1975, Cubiculo Theatre), and ''The In-Crowd'', a rock opera by J. E. Franklin (1977,
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). Rogoff penned the narrative for the multimedia game ''
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Rider''; a product which was showcased at the Electric Entertainment Expo (E3) in 1996. That same year she advocated for writing for interactive media at the 1996 Show Biz Expo on behalf of the Writers Guild of America. Rogoff serves as an associate professor at the
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(NYIT) where she received the Presidential Excellence Award in New York City. In 2013, she received a research award from the NYIT to develop her GreenKids Media Endanger series at the university.


References


External links


Lynn Rogoff at IMDB
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogoff, Lynn Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American dramatists and playwrights American film producers American theatre managers and producers American television producers American women television producers Tisch School of the Arts alumni New York Institute of Technology faculty