Lynn Rogoff is an American film

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and television producer

Television producer

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, and stage

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 playwright

Playwright

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, theatre director and professor.

Born in New York City

New York City

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, Rogoff is a graduate of New York University

New York University

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 Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

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. As a stage director, she has directed Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

, The Labyrinth by Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. He settled in France in 1955, he describes himself as “desterrado,” or “half-expatriate, half-exiled.”...

, Attempted Rescue by Megan Terry, the award winning ballet Journey and The In Crowd, a rock opera by J. E. Franklin.

Rogoff was a Writers Guild of America, East

Writers Guild of America, East

Writers Guild of America, East is a labor union representing writers of television and film and employees of television and radio news. The 2006 membership of the guild was 3,770....

 Foundation Fellow, dramatizing two early twentieth century American icons. Rogoff penned the play Love, Ben Love, Emma which is based on correspondence between Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....

 and Dr. Ben Reitman

Ben Reitman

Ben Lewis Reitman was an American anarchist and physician to the poor . He is best remembered today as radical Emma Goldman's lover.Reitman was a flamboyant, eccentric character...

. The play was originally produced by Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel was an American actress and theater producer who is remembered as the namesake of an off-Broadway playhouse and theatrical award....

 at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut

Westport, Connecticut

-Neighborhoods:* Saugatuck – around the Westport railroad station near the southwestern corner of the town – a built-up area with some restaurants, stores and offices....

 in 1983, starring Kevin O’Connor, Penelope Allen, and Martha Greenhouse. Judd Hirsch

Judd Hirsch

Judd Hirsch is an American actor most known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs.-Early life and education:...

 and Tovah Feldshuh

Tovah Feldshuh

Tovah Feldshuh is an American actress, singer and playwright.-Early life:Terri Sue Feldshuh was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Lillian and Sidney Feldshuh, who was a lawyer. She was raised in Scarsdale, New York, an affluent community in Westchester County and graduated...

 starred in 1985 at The Actors Studio in New York City. In 1993, Love, Ben Love, Emma was staged in Los Angeles at the Tiffany Theatre starring J. T. Walsh

J. T. Walsh

James Thomas Patrick "J. T." Walsh was an American character actor. He appeared in many well-known films, including Nixon, Hoffa, A Few Good Men, Backdraft, Miracle on 34th Street, Breakdown, and Good Morning, Vietnam.Walsh was known for his roles as "quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs"...

 and Lisa Richards.

Rogoff’s film work is as diverse Sesame Street

Sesame Street

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, Big Blue Marble

Big Blue Marble

Big Blue Marble was a half-hour children's television series that ran from 1974 to 1983 in syndication. Distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen-pal club that encouraged intercultural communication...

, and Watch Your Mouth here in the US and Rechov Sumsum in Israel (Israeli Sesame Street).

Rogoff’s television work, No Maps On My Taps has aired in the United States and internationally since 1979. No Maps on My Taps was honored with two Emmy Awards and First Prize's at American Film Festival for Best Feature Length Performing Arts Film.

Rogoff won a Writers Guild of America Nomination for Outstanding Writing. No Maps On My Taps was produced on grants from the AFI, PBS, the CPB, the Ford Foundation and the NEA. This film was the first to capture the black tap dancer contribution to American history. Rogoff sat as a judge for the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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Rogoff founded the AMERIKIDS USA Company. AMERIKIDS dramatizes the true adventures of heroic American teenagers AMERIKIDS was awarded a challenge grant from Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

 to produce a prototype of the AMERIKIDS interactive, live action CD-ROM game series

Computer Games

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. The first in this series, Pony Express

Pony Express

The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861...

 Rider was published and released by McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill

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 Home Interactive for Christmas 1996. Pony Express Rider was awarded a Crystal Award, a Bessie Award, National Parenting Center Seal of Approval and a Family Channel Seal of Quality. Rogoff's Green Kids Media is the recipient of the Kauffman Foundation Recognition of Entrepreneurial Achievement.

Rogoff serves as professor at St. John's University

St. John's University (New York City)

St. John's University is a private, Roman Catholic, coeducational university located in New York City, United States. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1870, the school was originally located in the borough of Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant...

  and New York Institute of Technology

New York Institute of Technology

New York Institute of Technology is a private, non-sectarian, co-educational research university in New York City. NYIT has five schools and two colleges, all with a strong emphasis on technology and applied scientific research...

in New York City and is on the Advisory Board of Luminous Visions.

Rogoff is currently represented by Global Talent Agency