Mark Medoff - Artistic Director

Playwright, screenwriter, and director of stage, film, and opera.  He has received a Tony Award for Children of a Lesser God, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award.  He is the winner of London’s Society of West End Theatres Award for best play and nominee for a Cable Ace Award for his HBO premiere movie, Apology.  He has also received an OBIE Award for When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?

In 2000, Mr. Medoff produced and directed the documentary film, Who Fly on Angels’ Wings, about a mobile pediatric unit traveling through the under-served regions of southern New Mexico.  In 2001, he directed the feature film, Children on their Birthdays, based on the story by Truman Capote.

Mr. Medoff was co-founder of the American Southwest Theatre Company and Head of the Department of Theatre Arts for 9 years.  He is currently the Reynolds Eminent Scholar in the School of Theatre at Florida State University.  He has also been named Senior Fellow in the Creative Media Institute at New Mexico State University, where he taught for 27 years.