Lynn Rogoff is an American film and television producer, and stage playwright, theatre director and professor.
Born in New York City, Rogoff is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts. As a stage director, she has directed Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, The Labyrinth by Fernando Arrabal, 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 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 and Dr. Ben Reitman. The play was originally produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut in 1983, starring Kevin O’Connor, Penelope Allen, and Martha Greenhouse. Judd Hirsch and Tovah Feldshuh 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 and Lisa Richards.
Rogoff’s film work is as diverse Sesame Street, Big Blue Marble, 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.
Rogoff founded the AMERIKIDS USA Company. AMERIKIDS ® dramatizes the true adventures of heroic American teenagers AMERIKIDS was awarded a challenge grant from Oracle Corporation to produce a prototype of the AMERIKIDS interactive, live action CD-ROM game series. The first in this series, Pony Express Rider was published and released by McGraw-Hill 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 serves as Professor at St. John's University in New York City and is on the Advisory Board of Luminous Visions.
Ms. Rogoff is in the forefront of original television production, multimedia content, producing, and writing for theatre, television and CD-ROM. For No Maps on My Taps (1979) she won a Nomination for Outstanding Writing Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. She was honored to sit as a Judge for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has worked as writer, producer and director on numerous award winning series: Sesame Street, Big Blue Marble, and Watch Your Mouth here in the US and Rehov Sum Sum in Israel (Israeli Sesame St.) She was a WGA, East Foundation Fellow for dramatizing these two early twentieth century American icons. This passionate love story Love, Ben Love, Emma is based on correspondence between Emma Goldman and Dr. Ben Reitman. Love, Ben Love, Emma was originally produced to critical acclaim by Lucille Lortel (White Barn Theatre) on the East Coast in 1983, in 1993, in Los Angeles at the Tiffany Theatre starring J.T. Walsh. Rogoff received her MFA from NYU, School of the Arts, in Directing. Among her numerous directing credits is: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee William's, The Labyrinth by Arrabal, Attempted Rescue by Megan Terry, the award winning ballet Journey and The In Crowd, a rock opera by J.E. Franklin She founded the Amerikids USA Company developing, Amerikids ® as a pilot television series for ABC Network Television. The first in this series, Pony Express Rider was published and released by McGraw-Hill Home Interactive for Christmas 1996 to critical acclaim. It won a Crystal Award, a Bessie Award, National Parenting Center Seal of Approval and a Family Channel Seal of Quality. Most recently Bird Woman is the story of the Shoshone Indian guide who led the Lewis & Clark, Voyage of Discovery, across the dangerous Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. She has been working with Native Americans producers across the USA on this documentary on Sacagawea, Bird Woman.
