Lynn Rogoff

Who is Lynn Rogoff?

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.