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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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This review is from: When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?. (Paperback)
From the jacket of my hard bound copy of this book, it states, "... forces the reader to turn the pages quickly to satisfy his simple curiosity: What happens next? How does it end?". So true. This tense, violent suspense play had me doing exactly as predicted, but when I had finished, I felt as if I had been gawking at a horrendous car crash, and felt a bit guilty for my indulgence. Mark Medoff's 1973 Off-Broadway play about a violent armed assault in a New Mexican diner is indebted and infatuated with William Inge's play "Bus Stop", also concerning a diner, and the threatening violence which lurks unborn throughout Inge's play, erupts in a sensational, exploitative fury in Medoff's. The characters seem like twisted versions of Inge's characters, one even nearly shares the same name, but the inhabitants of Medoff's diner are never fully developed as real people before, during or after the violent surge. Still, there is much sympathy to be had for Medoff's strange anti-hero protagonist, Red, and the pace of the play is as swift as it would be witnessing a bank hold-up.
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Ole Number One,
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This review is from: When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?. (Paperback)
In the 1960s the Interstate Highway System invades rural America, transforming bucolic burgs into oversized truck stops with dispirited residents. In one such town in New Mexico, Stephen "Red" Ryder dreams of breaking out to become a big man, but never quite makes it. He works graveyards at a diner he theatrically hates and tries to pretend there's no sexual tension with the waitress who takes over from him. Then, one half-crowded Sunday breakfast, a menacing stranger comes in packing iron and changes everything.Presaging the casual violence of David Mamet or Martin McDonagh, Mark Medoff's debut New York play pushes hard on the clash of cultures that was in high gear in the pre-Woodstock years and is still essentially underway. Red has a high opinion of himself, but doesn't act on it; he wants to be as powerful as Teddy, but when faced with that kind of might, he's defenseless. Teddy seems to be nerving himself up to be Nietzsche's superman, but can't quite make the leap. Other characters include Angel, whose world is turned so inward that she doesn't realize how deeply she loves; Lyle, who loves so intently that he no longer has anything left to give away; Clarisse and Richard Etheridge, whose high-caste marriage is held up by secrets even they no longer acknowledge; and Cheryl, Teddy's hippie girlfriend, who believes in all the peace and love to which Teddy is the complete opposite. Six blustery characters, incapable of action, are trapped in a small diner with a man who is incapable of shutting up. But which is more honest, more noble? When Red calls himself "Ole Number One," who does he hope to convince that he's lived a life he cares about? And why does it take such an act of violence to spur Red to act? This largely forgotten gem of a play is a snapshot of time, of America adrift and capable of going many directions. It's about the people who see those choices, and respond by not making any choice. It shouldn't take trauma to make the possibilities real, but it does. And it's fascinating to see how the events that strip some people of their humanity forge others to greater heights.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This play was very interesting, it kept you wondering.,
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This review is from: When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?. (Paperback)
This was a very interesting story. It was full of suspence. I could not put it down for one second. It makes you think, and it actually gives you a chance to feel what each character is going through.
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