Mark Medoff | |
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| Born | March 18, 1940 Mount Carmel, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | April 23, 2019 (aged 79) Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Occupation | Playwright, screenwriter, film director, theater director, actor, professor |
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| Spouse | Stephanie Thorne Medoff (m. 1972) |
| Children | 3 |
Mark Medoff (March 18, 1940 – 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[1] was released in 2010.
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? was adapted into a film with a screenplay by Medoff in 1979.[2]