12 Facts About Mark Medoff

Mark Medoff was an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor.

Mark Medoff 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.

Mark Medoff was raised in Miami Beach, Florida, and graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School.

Mark Medoff received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami and his Master's from Stanford University.

Mark Medoff received an honorary degree in 1981 from Gallaudet University.

Mark Medoff was back on Broadway again with the staging of his play Prymate in 2005.

Mark Medoff was co-founder of the American Southwest Theatre Company and head of the Department of Theatre Arts for nine years at New Mexico State University, where he was a professor for a total of twenty-seven years and taught Screenwriting and Acting for Film, Short Film Production, and Film Directing and Producing.

Mark Medoff was the Creative Director of the Creative Media Institute at NMSU, the film department at the university.

Mark Medoff was the winner of the Kennedy Center Medallion for Excellence in Education and Artistic Achievement, given periodically to professionals in theater who teach and mentor students.

Mark Medoff was married to second wife Stephanie Thorne from 1972 until his death in 2019; they had three daughters.

Mark Medoff died on April 23,2019, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, from complications at age 79.

Mark Medoff's theatre directing credits include Waiting for Godot, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Equus, and Hot L Baltimore.