Gordon Rogoff


Gordon Rogoff is a theatre director, dramaturge, professor, and theatre critic.

Life and work

Rogoff graduated with a bachelor's of arts from Yale University in 1952. He is currently Professor 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. He has also worked with the Actor's Studio and The Open Theater, both in Manhattan, New York.
He was a theatre critic for The Village Voice during the 1970s and 1980s.] He has also written for The Nation, The New Republic, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Reporter, as well as and The Yale Review. He served on the editorial board of Theater during the 1970s alongside Michael Feingold, Ren Frutkin, and Richard Gilman.
Rogoff has published multiple books, including Theater is Not Safe and Vanishing Acts: Theater Since the Sixties. Vanishing Acts was published by Yale University Press and compiles 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.
His life partner is playwright and visual artist Morton Lichter.

Awards and recognition