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CURRICULUM VITAE
RICHARD BRAD MEDOFF
23 West 73rd Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 362-1631
DEGREES:
B.A. Theatre, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1974.
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Playwriting) English Department, Brooklyn College, 1986.
Ph.D. Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center. Dissertation: The Dramatization of Paintings:
Methods and Processes, 1993.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
January
Assistant Professor, Literature, Languages and Communication Division
1999-2004
2004-Present Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Humanities Department,
Speech Program
Mercy College
February
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
1997-Fall 1998
Bronx Community College (CUNY) &
LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Fall 1996Assistant Professor (Substitute Line)
January 1997*
Bronx Community College (CUNY)
Communication Arts and Science Department
* A special waiver was granted by the central CUNY office on a CUNY-wide limit of
four semesters in a substitute position.
Fall 1994Assistant Professor (Substitute Line), Department of Humanities
August 1996
LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Fall 1992Spring 1994
Adjunct Lecturer , Adjunct Assistant Professor, Humanities
LaGuardia Community College
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Spring 1989- Adjunct Lecturer , Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Speech
Summer 1994
City College of New York
Fall 1989
Adjunct Lecturer, Theatre
NYU School of Continuing Education
PUBLICATIONS:
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? Review of play by Edward Albee, Theatre Journal (Vol. 55,
No. 1 March 2003) pp. 164-166.
Review of V. Havel's Temptation directed by Jiri Zizka at the Public Theatre, New York,
Soviet and East European Performance Vol. 9 No. 1 (Summer 1989).
PAPERS PRESENTED:
“The Transmediation of Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart from Stage to Screen” South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-7, 2010
“The Antigone Project.” Gave a paper on at Conference of Association for Theatre in
Higher Education in San Francisco July 2005 on “The Antigone Project.” The paper was
not only a description of the Project for which I not only assisting in the planning but also
included visiting PSYN 119 classes to introduce the play as a theatre work, setting up a
website on Pipeline for the sharing of ideas, discussion and further website research and
investigation, and directing, designing, and costuming an outdoor performance of
Antigone, but also the community building aspects of theatre and performance.
“The Goat or ‘The Play’s the Thing’ Metacreation and the recent works of Edward
Albee” at Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland,
October 26-28, 2003.
“Theatre as the Art of Communication: Multi-media Drama in Courses on Verbal and
Non-verbal Communications” at Blue Ridge International Conference on Humanities and
the Arts at Appalachian State University, April 15, 2000.
“Holding the Mirror up to Censorship: The Framing Devices of Buero-Vallejo’s Las
Meninas.” Session Title: “Discovering Contemporary Spanish Drama: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives,” Theory and Criticism Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher
Education Conference, Chicago, August 6-9, 1997.
PANELS:
“Communications Canvas: The Challenges of Editing, Articulating, Directing,
Articulating and Performing” Panel Discussion at New York State Communications
Association, Ellenville, NY, October 22-24.
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Presented paper as member of Panel with Dr. Kilpatrick, Dr. Lerman, and Dr.
Dodsworth, at Breakfast Roundtable “ Context and Connections: Designing and
Implementing a 4-Course Honors Curriculum” at NE-NCHC Conference.
“New Student House,” at “23rd Student Personnel Conference 1996 Reaffirming
CUNY’s Commitment to Students: Addressing New Economic, Political and Social
Realities,” Hostos Community College, New York, April 19, 1996.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Mercy College:
Oral Communication
Voice and Diction
Honors Speech
Honors Speech (in cluster with Honors English, Honors
History and Honors Art History (theme 1: Transformations
of the Sacred; theme 2: Community))
Psychology of Communications (both in classroom and
online)
Directing
Play Production (Elements of Theatre)
Modern Drama
Oral Interpretation of Literature
Acting 1
Scene Study
Communications Revolution
TV Performance
Freshman Seminar (Sex, Love, and Romance in Media
Studies)
Playwriting
LaGuardia Community College (CUNY):
The Art of Theatre
Creative Drama
Creative Drama (clustered with ESL 098)
Theatre as Communication
Voice and Diction
Oral Communication
Communication for Non-native Speakers
Basic Speech (remedial course)
Speech for Non-native Speakers
Public Speaking
New Student House Team II ( A coordinated team-taught remedial
program in which I taught Basic Speech skills and Creative
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Drama)-- Spring 1995, Spring 1996, & Spring 1997 (Oral
Communication) Fall 1997
Bronx Community College (CUNY):
Fundamentals of Communication
Acting
Phonetics (ESL students)
Voice and Diction
City College of New York (CUNY):
Voice and Diction
Speech Communication
Art of Rhetoric
World Humanitites-Great World Speeches
(Course Taught and Developed)
NYU School of Continuing Education: Modern Drama
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
New York State Communications Association
SAMLA
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Division Representative on Faculty Senate 2000-2002, 2002-2004 and again 2004-2006.
Division representative on College-wide Curriculum Committee 2004-present.
Member of Sub Committee on re-evaluating General Education Requirements (assisted in
development of Freshman Semionar)
Faculty Representative on Student Appeals Court (2 Faculty) (Elected 2 year term)
Secretary of College-wide Curriculum Committee 2007-2009
Secretary of Faculty Senate 2000-2002
Planned and assisted with Antigone Project which included visiting PSYN 119 classes to
introduce the play as a theatre work, setting up a website on Pipeline for the sharing of
ideas, discussion and further website research and investigation, and directing, designing,
and costuming an outdoor performance of Antigone.
HONORS STUDENT WORK:
Spring 2010 Assisted in creating an accepted application for Honors students
participation with Posters at Northeast Regional Honors Conference in Harrisburg, PA:
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Kate Beaman-Martinez, Mercy College
“Virtual Gaming: Acting out the Central Concept of New Storytelling”
Gayatri Samnarain and Jennifer Andre, Mercy College
“The Center: An Honors Dictionary Re-languaging an Honors Community”
Spring 2009 Assisted in creating an accepted application for Honors students
participation in Panel Discussion and Presentation of Papers and Posters at Northeast
Regional Honors Conference in Annapolis.
Fall 2008 assisted in creating an accepted application for Honors students participation in
Panel Discussion and Presentation of Papers at National Honors Conference in San
Antonio. ( This was a panel of students from diverse backgrounds and majors who have
researched and studied breaking through what had been considered separate territories
and have found them selves on the borders of new frontiers to cross. Crossing the frontier
of superstition to science, Maksim Vasilevsky a Veterinary Technology major has been
researching the rise of homeopathic treatments in veterinary medicine. Crossing the
frontier of one media to another means needing to translate what is intrinsic to one media
into new forms. Alina Ho is researching what is necessary for a successful
transmediation of literature into theatre and film. Multi-tasking can be viewed as
working in two frontiers at once. Praveed Abrahm has been doing research through our
McNair Scholars Program to see if music (and what types of music) can amplify the
experience of learning. Discovering new frontiers in broadcast, Katherine Ryan .is
researching niche journalism and it’s impact on mainstream news media.)
Attended with two student NCHC Conference, Chicago. Fall 2002. In Spring 2003, I
attended the regional conference where students from my Dobbs Ferry Honors Speech
class presented a poster on “Community Building,” and my Bronx Honors Speech class
presented a panel discussion on the problem of understanding African-American
communication as intercultural communication with mainstream America. I was
instrumental in the construction of both presentations.
PLAYWRITING and THEATRE:
Created and Directed two student productions: A Cacophony of Monologues (Fall 2008,
Media Studies Showcase) and Sean Faye’s Nightmare (Spring 2009—three
performances).
Advised student, Josh Daniels, in his submission of his play (developed in my
Playwriting Class) and winning a professional reading at the Great Plains Theatre
Conference and assisted in planning his attendance at the conference. (Spring 2008)
Faculty Advisor and Director of The Drama Club at Mercy College Fall 1999-Present.
Director for Fall 1999 and Fall 2000 Drama Club productions an Evening of
Improvisation. Director of Spring 2001 Drama Club production Edward Albee’s The
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American Dream. Author and Director of Spring 2000 Drama Club Production No
Change. Directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Fall 2004.
Faculty Advisor for Creative Minds Club aka Bronx Poetry Club
Took students to three professional theatre performances: Shame Lips (Off-Broadway)
Hair. Sondheim on Sondheim, Westside Story and Waiting For Godot (Broadway)
Developed course for Learning on Location “The Theatre and The City” now called “The
Influence of Theatre”
EDITING:
Assisted in the writing, translation, editing, and formatting (from Catalan to English) with
Marion Peter Holt (official translator) three plays:
1. Plas Tilin (Sorry) by Marta Buchaca. Commissioned by National Theatre of
Cataluña for publication
2. For a de Joc (Sidelined) by Sergei Belbel for presentation by the Ramon Llull
and the Martin E Siegal Theatre of CUNY Graduate Center for presentation as
part of a conference in Fall 2010.
3. Marlburg by Guillam Clua (World Premiere May 2010 in National Theatre of
Cataluña) as favor for playwright and his American agent.
Assisted in the writing, translation, editing, and formatting (from Catalan to English) with
Marion Peter Holt for Fall 2008 publication by MESTC of the CUNY Graduate Center
of Two Plays by Josep Maria Jornet I Benet and a second volume called Barcelona
Plays (4 plays by 4 playwrights) for Winter 2008 publication. Both now published Spring
2009
Assisted in the writing, translation, editing, and formatting (from Catalan to English) with
Marion Peter Holt for Fall 2008 publication by MESTC of the CUNY Graduate Center
Assisted in the writing of and editing article on Arthur Miller and The View From the
Bridge included in the National Theatre of Cataluyna production of that play (Panorama
des del pont). They translated from our English to Catalan 2007
Assisted in formatting and publication of translation of Autumn Flower, Rodríguez
Méndez, Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays, Rutgers Univ., 2002.
Associate Editor, Soviet and East European Drama, Theatre and Film, (1988-90) duties
include editing content and form, producing photo-ready copy and writing
"Announcements" and "Coming Events" Columns.
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OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
Judge for the preliminary round of Speechfest 2001, 2002, 2003,and 2004 Judge for
Finals of Speechfest 1999--2010 at Mercy College.
Fellow for Learning and Technology of Division of Literature, Language, and
Communication of Mercy College (attended several multiple day seminars on teaching
on-line courses and teaching others to teach on-line).
Representative of Division of Literature, Language, and Communication of Mercy
College at three-day conference on Course Imbedded Assessment at Kings College,
Wilkes-Barre, PA. Fall 2000
Author of self-help workbook for Oral Competency at Mercy College. (Available through
Learning Center)
Helped develope with Professor Maria Enrico Grant Application for Language Lab at
Mercy College.
Assisted McNair Scholars of Mercy College in their Summer 2000 – 2010 Oral
Presentations.
Member of committee for determining faculty winner of award for Excellence in
Teaching and College Leadership, Mercy College, May 2001.
Committee member of Curriculum Committee of the Division of Literature, Language,
and Communication at Mercy College 1999- Present.
Organized workshop on “Textbooks” for Professional Development Committee of
Humanities Department, LaGuardia Community College, May 5, 1996. Also sat on
Assessment Committee of Humanities Department at LaGuardia Community College
1994-1996.
Faculty Advisor of Creative Arts Club, LaGuardia Community College Fall 1995-Spring
1996
PLAYS WRITTEN:
In the Privacy of the Streets-------------BCBC 1986.
Congestion Ahead------------------------University of Shanghai (China)1988.
Not So Anxious To Rejoin Our Lord---13th Street Rep. (reading) 1988.
Other Representative Plays:
No Change (a collection of one act plays).
The Selection (Thesis play for M.F.A.).
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The Breach (developed under the supervision of Jack Gelber).
The Enemy (developed under the supervision of Jack Gelber).
Autopsy
Click
ACTING :
(Representative Roles)
New York
The Count
La Ronde, Schnitzler, BCBC, 1986.
Sammy Goldenbaum Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Inge, ATW, 1980.
Alfred
Linus
Valiere
Port Jefferson Summer Playhouse (1973)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Stoppard.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Schultz.
The Learned Ladies, Moliere.
Stony Brook (Department of Theatre)
Sebastian
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare, 1973.
Bassanio
The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare, 1973.
Mr. Shrdlu
The Adding Machine, Rice, 1974.
Arlecchino, and other roles Leonce and Lena, Buchner
(Commedia version), 1974.
DIRECTING:
The Father, Strindberg, BCBC, 1985.
In The Privacy of The Streets Medoff, BCBC, 1986.
Antigone, Sophocles, Mercy College, 2002
ACTING EDUCATION:
Mime--------------------------Tom Neumiller
Commedia dell'Arte
Technique---------------John Newfield
Voice-------------------------Richard Dyer-Bennett
Movement-------------------Cecily Dell
OTHER ACTING EXPERIENCE:
1973-75 Member of "Das Mime Company," visited schools in Long Island and Brooklyn
to introduce Mime to students.
REFERENCES:
Letters of recommendation on file at CUNY Graduate Center, Placement Office