Roger M. Rueff (13 December) is a writer whose produced dramatic works include stage plays, teleplays, and screenplays.
Career
His stage play ''
Hospitality Suite'' premiered at
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory (SCR) is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.
South Coast Repertory was founded in 1964. It has three stages and presents plays from all eras. SCR producers new plays, Theatre for Young Audiences ...
in
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa (; Spanish language, Spanish for "coastal tableland") is a city in Orange County, California, United States. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to an urban area including ...
in 1992 and has been subsequently produced internationally. ''So Many Words'' also premiered at South Coast Rep, where it garnered two awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle: one for best writing and the other for best play to receive its world premiere in Los Angeles or Orange counties (the Ted Schmitt Award).
Rueff's works for the screen include the teleplay ''God Lives'' produced by the Magic Door Children's Theater in Chicago and ''
The Big Kahuna'', his screen adaptation of ''Hospitality Suite'', starring
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. Known for Kevin Spacey on screen and stage, his work on stage and screen, he List of awards and nominations received by Kevin Spacey, has received numerous accolades, including two ...
and
Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi (TV series), Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him ...
. ''The Big Kahuna'' premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
in September, 1999, and was one of three films nominated for the 2000
Humanitas Prize
The Humanitas Prize is an American award for film and television writing, presented to writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced and meaningful manner. It began in 1974 with Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser—also the founder of ...
for independent film.
In 2011 he collaborated with the Italian screenwriter
Nicola Barile
Nicola Barile (born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, February 5, 1962) is an Italian screenwriter and director.
Considered one of the pioneers of animation in Campania, after having worked for several years at the screenplays of the soap-opera Un Post ...
, author of ''
The Art of Happiness'', at the international Boys & Girls web series, directed by Fulvio Iannucci and co-funded by the European Community to raise awareness among European teenagers on some topics, such as nutrition, use of alcohol and drugs and sexual behaviors.
Early life
Rueff was born in
Upland, California
Upland is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States, on the border with neighboring Los Angeles County. The municipality is located at an elevation of . As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population ...
and grew up in
Denver, Colorado
Denver ( ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Consolidated city and county, consolidated city and county, the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous city of the U.S. state of ...
. He earned a
B.Sc.
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
in 1978, an
M.Sc. in 1983 and a
Ph.D. in 1985 in
Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering at the
Colorado School of Mines
The Colorado School of Mines (Mines) is a public research university in Golden, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1874, the school offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, and mathematics, with a focus on ener ...
.
[''Mines Magazine'', Colorado School of Mines Alumni Association, Sep 1995, p 218.]
References
External links
website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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