Master of Fine Arts in Directing - New
York University School of the Arts
Professor Rogoff (rogoffl@stjohns.edu ) has
been teaching at St. Johns University since 2001. During her
tenure, she created new courses entitled Discover New York in Film,
New Media and English Composition Online, as well as One and Three
Camera Studio Directing. In addition, Professor Rogoff has
taught Writing, Speech, Directing and Production for two decades in
New York colleges and universities including Yeshiva University, St
Francis College and School of Visual Arts. .
Professor Rogoff has also been in the forefront of original
television production, interactive learning and and multimedia
content; writing and producing for film, television and
CD-ROM. Rogoff founded the AMERIKIDS USA Company
developing, AMERIKIDS ® as a pilot television and book series for
ABC Network Television. These Weekend Specials dramatize the true
adventures of heroic American teenagers. AMERIKIDS USA, ventured
into the realm of edutainment in its CD-ROM game series entitled,
"AMERIKIDS." Her company was awarded with a prestigious challenge
grant from ORACLE Corporation to produce a prototype of AMERIKIDS
as an interactive, live action series.
The first in this series, Pony Express Rider was published and
released by McGraw-Hill Home Interactive for Christmas 1996 to
critical acclaim. This live action, $1.5 million dollar blue
screen-3-disk adventure was awarded a Crystal Award, a Bessie
Award, National Parenting Center Seal of Approval and a Family
Channel Seal of Quality. In television her film
No Maps On My Taps has aired nationally and internationally for a
decade. Her film was honored with two Emmy Awards and First
Prize's at film festivals worldwide. In addition she won a WGA
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 dancers'
contribution to American history. She was honored to sit as a Judge
for the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
The professor 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 honored as a WGA, East Foundation
Fellow, for dramatizing 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,
starring Olympia Dukakis, Judd Hirsch, Tovah Feldshuh, and in 1993,
in Los Angeles at the Tiffany Theatre starring J.T.
Walsh.
Most recently, Professor Rogoff completed Bird Woman a magical
realism screenplay on the morphing adventures of Sacagawea, was
completed. Bird Woman is the story of the Shoshone Indian guide who
led the Lewis & Clark, the Voyage of Discovery, across the
dangerous Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Rogoff worked
with Native Americans producers across the USA to write and produce
materials on Sacagawea,
Professor 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 fn Crowd, a rock opera by J. E. Franklin.
Courses taught:
ENG 1000C -- 14613
English Composition: Critical Analysis
ENG 1100C -- 14512
English: Literature in a Global Context