Roger Rueff

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Roger Rueff ( December 13 ) is an American writer and author of numerous plays and screenplays. He won several awards.

Career

Rueff was born in Upland, California , but grew up in Denver , the capital of the US state of Colorado . He stayed in his state for his chemistry studies and earned a bachelor's degree from the Colorado State University of Technology School of Mines (CSM) in Golden in 1978 . This was followed by three years as a process engineer at Marathon Oil Co. in Lafayette , Louisiana . He then returned to his alma mater for a doctorate in chemical engineering , which he successfully completed in the mid-1980s. After this step, I moved professionally to the research department of Amoco and geographically to Naperville , Illinois . There he began to take part in amateur theater in his suburb and to write stage works , having previously worked on short stories and poems.

When his 1992 play Hospitality Suite premiered on the side stage at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa , California, he told the Los Angeles Times that his professional career was a "career" of writing in his spare time and night of plays, which is why he usually only got four and a half hours of sleep, but “calling”. After he was able to give his first readings of his play in 1991 at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York, he worked with an agent for the first time.

In fact, he followed his appointment in 1992 and left Amoco, where he always kept his writing ambitions to himself. In the following year, “So Many Words” - which received the Ted Schmitt Award and the award for best play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and was also named best play at the Drama Logue Award - was another work performed on stage for the first time . For a few years that was Rueff's only relevant success.

Rueff attracted international attention in 199 when the Hospitality Suite was filmed under the title The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey and Danny de Vito , and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 1999. The initiative for the filming came primarily from Spacey, who had come into contact with Hospitality Suite and the director John Swanbeck at an early stage and wanted to realize the play with his newly founded company Trigger Street Prods . A total of seven months passed for the project - starting with the writing of the script, for which Rueff deleted some parts of the play and added new scenes, and finally with the shooting in February 1999, which was completed in 16 days.

In the following year, the film was nominated for the Humanitas Prize in the "Sundance Feature Film" category endowed with USD 10,000 . In the category that has now been renamed “Independent Film”, “Love And Basketball” by Gina Prince-Bythewood prevailed.

"Exchange of Vows", "The Imperative", "Hunger's End" and "The Company of Reasonable Persons" followed later as theater pieces. Rueff also wrote a collection of poetic proverbs under the title "Fifty Things I Want My Son To Know".

Together with the Italian Fulvio Iannucci, Rueff also realized the animated web series Boys & Girls in 2012 . The client was the European Union's health program .

In the meantime, more precisely: in 2005, Rueff was elected to the board of the Independent Writers of Chicago . He later became president of the association.

Private

At the end of 1999, around the premiere of the film The Big Kahuna , Rueff was the father of a ten-year-old son from a marriage that had been divorced at the time.

As a second mainstay in addition to his work as a writer and author, Rueff founded the company Write Now, Inc. , which specializes in services relating to all aspects of corporate communications.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stet - The Newsletter of the Independent Writers of Chicago (PDF), Issue 1, January 2009, Volume 28. In: iwoc.org . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Jan Herman: Playwright Engineers a Dual Life: Scientist Roger Rueff Spent Nights Penning 'Hospitality Suite,' Now on SCR's Second Stage ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: latimes.com . April 30, 1992 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Stet - The Newsletter of the Independent Writers of Chicago (PDF), Issue 11, November 2005, Volume 24. In: iwoc.org . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  4. ^ A b c Richard Christiansen: Suburban Scribe eagerly awaits `The Big Kahuna '. In: chicagotribune.com. October 24, 1999, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  5. ^ David Jay Lasky: Humanitas nominees announced. In: variety.com. June 28, 2000, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Past Winners. In: humanitasprize.org. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  7. ^ Roger Rueff - Member profile details. In: chicagodramatists.org. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The Imperative. In: staugustine.com. January 22, 2010, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Vinilici. Perchè il vinile ama la musica. In: riff.it. October 23, 2018, accessed March 4, 2019 (Italian).
  10. ^ G. Anton Publishing - Chicago. In: gantonpublishing.com. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  11. ^ About Us - Write Now, Inc. In: writenowinc.com. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rueff, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, author of numerous plays and screenplays
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Upland, California