Gordon Rogoff

Rogoff graduated with a bachelor's of arts from Yale University in 1952.{{Cite web|url=https://drama.yale.edu/facstaff/gordon-rogoff|title=Gordon Rogoff {{!}} drama.yale.edu|website=Yale School of Drama|language=en|access-date=August 20, 2018}} He was a Professor Emeritus of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama.

During the 1970s, Rogoff was the director of the Center for Theatre Research at SUNY Buffalo.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/1877 "Program: "Given: No Bread, an Encounter & Dinner for Fifteen (1973)". Accessed August 20, 2018.] He also worked with the Actors Studio and The Open Theater, both in Manhattan, New York.

Rogoff was a theatre critic for The Village Voice during the 1970s and 1980s.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/4087 "Reviews and listings for Wielopole, Wielopole (1982)". Accessed August 20, 2018.]La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/6202 "Playwright File: John Jesurun". Accessed August 20, 2018.]La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/4731 "Reviews: Harm's Way (1985)". Accessed August 20, 2018.]]La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/7409 "Press: Etiquette (1986)". Accessed August 20, 2018.]La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/7446 "Press: Carmilla (1986)". Accessed August 20, 2018.]La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/7478 "Press: Kindness (1986)". Accessed August 20, 2018.]La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Objects/7493 "Show File: La Trota (1986)". Accessed August 20, 2018.] He also wrote for The Nation, The New Republic, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Reporter, as well as Parnassus: Poetry in Review and The Yale Review. He served on the editorial board of Theater{{cite web |url=https://theatermagazine.org/|title=Theater }} during the 1970s alongside Michael Feingold, Ren Frutkin, and Richard Gilman.{{Cite web|url=https://theatermagazine.org/about|title=About {{!}} Theater|website=Theater Magazine|language=en|access-date=August 20, 2018}}

Rogoff published multiple books, including Theater is Not Safe and Vanishing Acts: Theater Since the Sixties (2000).{{Cite journal|last=Rogoff|first=Gordon|date=1969|title=The Theatre Is Not Safe: A Report from The Village Voice with Some Additions and Interpolations|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/theater/article-abstract/2/1/89/23873/The-Theatre-Is-Not-Safe-A-Report-from-The-Village?redirectedFrom=fulltext|journal=Theater|language=en|volume=2|issue=1|pages=89–101|doi=10.1215/00440167-2-1-89|issn=0161-0775}} Vanishing Acts was published by Yale University Press and compiled Rogoff's writing on theatre artists including Peter Brook, Robert Wilson, Ariane Mnouchkine, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Alban Berg, Tony Kushner, Laurence Olivier, Donald Wolfit, Judi Dench, Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Lee J. Cobb, Vanessa Redgrave, Geraldine Page, Joseph Papp, Eugene O'Neill, and Arthur Miller, among others.{{Cite web|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300082487/vanishing-acts|title=Vanishing Acts {{!}} Yale University Press|website=Yale Books|language=en|access-date=August 20, 2018}}

His life partner was playwright and visual artist Morton Lichter.{{Cite web|url=http://nyihumanities.org/gordon-rogoff/|title=Gordon Rogoff|website=New York Institute for the Humanities|language=en-US|access-date=August 20, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.mortonlichter.com/about |title=Morton Lichter}}

Rogoff died on January 26, 2024, at the age of 92.{{cite news |title=Appreciation: Theater critic Gordon Rogoff found the most artful language to capture acting greatness |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-01-31/theater-critic-gordon-rogoff-dies-appreciation |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=31 January 2024}}

• 1973: Guggenheim Fellowship (theatre arts){{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/gordon-rogoff/|title=Fellows: Gordon Rogoff|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|access-date=August 20, 2018}}
• 1976: Obie Award (with Morton Lichter), Old Timers' Sexual Symphony{{Cite news|url=http://www.obieawards.com/events/1970s/year-76/|title=1976 {{!}} Obie Awards|work=Obie Awards|access-date=August 20, 2018|language=en-US}}
• 1985-86: George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/19/theater/gordon-rogoff-wins-drama-criticism-award.html|title=Gordon Rogoff Wins Drama Criticism Award|date=March 19, 1987|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 20, 2018|language=en}}
• 1991: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/morton-dauwen-zabel Morton Dauwen Zabel] Award for Criticism, The American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2009, 2011, 2013: fellowship, [https://www.bfny.org/ The Bogliasco Foundation]

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• [http://catalog.lamama.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/8237 Rogoff's page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections]
• [https://drama.yale.edu/facstaff/gordon-rogoff Rogoff's faculty page on Yale School of Drama]
• [http://nyihumanities.org/gordon-rogoff/ Rogoff's page on the New York Institute for the Humanities]
• [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/rogoff-vanishing.html Vanishing Acts] on The New York Times web archive
• [http://archives.bu.edu/videos/video?id=360922 "A Night of Theatre with Gordon Rogoff [March 30, 2006]"] (Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University)

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