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Mark Medoff is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. He received a Tony Award for CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD as well as London's Olivier Award for Best Play. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film script of CHILDREN and for a Cable ACE Award (now EMMY) for his HBO Premiere movie, APOLOGY. He received an OBIE Award for WHEN YOU COMIN BACK, RED RYDER.
Among his movies are CLARA'S HEART, OFF BEAT, and CITY OF JOY.
He has written one novel, DREAMS OF LONG LASTING.
In 2000, Mark directed and co-produced the documentary film, WHO FLY ON ANGELS' WINGS, about a mobile pediatric unit traveling through the underserved areas of southern New Mexico.
In 2001, Mark directed the feature film, CHILDREN ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS, based on the story by Truman Capote. Among other awards, it received the Houston World Film Festival Award for Best Family Film.
His play PRYMATE ran briefly on Broadway in 2005.
He was Reynolds Eminent Scholar in the School of Theatre at Florida State University 2003-2006. He is now Distinguished Lecturer in Playwriting at the University of Houston and Senior Fellow in the Creative Media Institute for Film & Digital Arts at New Mexico State University. He formerly taught at NMSU for 27 years and was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the American Southwest Theatre Company and Head of the Department of Theatre Arts for 9 years.
In 1974, he received NMSU's highest faculty honor, the Westafer Award. In 1980, he was honored with the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, New Mexico's most prestigious lifetime artistic honor. In 2005, he received The Kennedy Center Medallion for Excellence in Education and Artistic Achievement.
In 2006 he directed the short film 100 MPG, which was selected to a number of film festivals.
In 2007, he directed BOOM, a training film for the military, produced by the Creative Media Institute at NMSU and the Department of Justice.
More recently, he directed the premiere of the stage musical EXTINCTION: A LOVE STORY, by Bob Diven; THE MEN OF MAH JONGG, a new play by Richard Atkins, that ran at New York City's Queens Theater in the Park in December 2008; DISPOSABLE NUT, by Ross Marks, and his own THE SAME LIFE OVER at Las Cruces' No Strings Theater Company.
August 2009, he directed the feature film REFUGE, which he wrote from a story by Phil Treon and him. The movie stars Linda Hamilton, Christopher McDonald, Chris Payne Gilbert and Lena Georgas.
He is now working on a 6 play cycle, THE DEBOOMER GENERATION, about the period between 1946 and 2006, which he is workshopping at the University of Houston.
He has been married for thirty-eight years to Stephanie Medoff; they have three daughters and six grandchildren.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Children of a Lesser God. (Paperback)
Written in the late 1970s and debuting on Broadway in 1980, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD began as Mark Medoff's response to actress Phyllis Frelich's comment that few plays portrayed deaf and hearing-impaired people in a realistic manner. The resulting play shattered stereotypes and, in a very real sense, changed the way that society in general regarded people with hearing disabilities.
The story centers on the relationship between hearing James Leeds and deaf Sarah Norman, the former a teacher, the later a defiant woman who declines to communicate in any way other than sign language. Initial hostility turns into an affair; the affair turns into a marriage--but in the wake of the marriage the couple is repeatedly torn between the deaf and hearing worlds and Sarah's sudden determination that no one shall speak for her but herself. CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, which won an arm-load of Tony Awards, was among the very few non-musical plays that toured extensively in the 1980s. I myself had the opportunity to see one such tour and was startled when a group seated near me walked out on the show. "I thought this was going to be a play about those dear little deaf children!" a woman in the group loudly complained. No, it isn't, and after seeing or reading it you will find it difficult to think about people with hearing disabilities--or any other disability for that matter--in quite the same way. It is powerful stuff. Many non-theatre people find playscripts difficult to read, and in truth playscripts are a blueprint for directors and actors and not intended as reading material for the general public. This is preface to the very basic statement that some plays "read" well and some do not. I must note that many readers may find it difficult to imagine how it is staged and how the sign language and various translation modes work on stage. It will be a bit of a challenge to some, but even so I strongly recommend it. GFT, Amazon Reviewer
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Real Eye-Opener,
This review is from: Children of a Lesser God. (Paperback)
Our school recently did a one-act play version of "Children of a Lesser God." Let me say that the subject is very embracing: a hearing-impaired woman's struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. I find that the most qouted line in our play was from Sarah: "It is a silence full of sound." Truthfully, the most gut-wrenching scene is near the end, as the two main characters have an argument over lip-reading as opposed to signing. If you'll take my opinion, you should definately purchase this playbook. I considered it to be a real eye-opener.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Play worth Performing! Stunning Content,
This review is from: Children of a Lesser God: A Play (Hardcover)
Our school recently did a one-act play version of "Children of a Lesser God." Let me say that the subject is very embracing: a hearing-impaired woman's struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. I find that the most qouted line in our play was from Sarah: "It is a silence full of sound." Truthfully, the most gut-wrenching scene is near the end, as the two main characters have an argument over lip-reading as opposed to signing. If you'll take my opinion, you should definately purchase this playbook. I considered it to be a real eye-opener.
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