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. He was also the Creative Director of the Creative Media Institute at NMSU, the film department at the university. The theater department is still the American Southwest Theater Company. For one semester a year between 2003–06, he worked at Florida State University as a Reynolds Eminent Scholar in the School of Theatre. In the spring semester of 2008 he joined the faculty of the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance as Distinguished Lecturer. He was the winner of the Kennedy Center Medallion for Excellence in Education and Artistic Achievement, given periodically to professionals in theater who also teach and mentor students. Personal life and death Medoff was married to second wife Stephanie Thorne from 1972 until his death in 2019; they had three daughters. In April 2019, he entered hospice care after battling cancer in his later years and suffering a fall. He died on April 23, 2019, from complications at age 79. Bibliography Plays The Wager, 1966 The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack, (w/ Carleene Johnson, 1973) The Kramer, 1973 When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, 1974 The Halloween Bandit, 1978 The Conversion of Aaron Weiss, 1978 Firekeeper, 1978 The Last Chance Saloon, 1979 The Froegle Dictum, 1980 Children of a Lesser God, 1980 The Majestic Kid, 1981 The Hands of Its Enemy, 1984 Kringle's Window, 1985. The Heart Outright, 1986 The Homage That Follows, 1995 Showdown on Rio Road (with Ross Marks, 1998). Crunch Time, (with Phil Treon, 1998). Gila, 1996. Gunfighter - A Gulf War Chronicle, 1997 A Christmas Carousel, 1997. Tommy J and Sally, 2000. The Same Life Over, 2002. Prymate, 2003. The Dramaturgy of Mark Medoff, 2004. Marilee and Baby Lamb: Assassination of an American Goddess, 2015. Radio plays The Disintegration of Aaron Weiss, 1979 The Last Chance Saloon, 1980 Screenplays Good Guys Wear Black, 1978 When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder, 1979 Off Beat, 1986 Apology, 1986 Children of a Lesser God, 1986 Clara's Heart, 1987 City of Joy, 1992 Showdown on Rio Road, 1993 Homage, 1995 Santa Fe, 1997 100 MPG, 2006 Refuge, 2010 Walking with Herb, 2021 Acting and directing Medoff's theatre directing credits include Waiting for Godot, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Jacques Brel is