1. Tony Award winner “Children of A Lesser God” writer Mark Medoff passed away
• He was born on 18th March 1940 in Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States.
• ‘Children of a Lesser God’ won the 1980 Tony award for Best Play which was about the tale of a love affair between a speech teacher and a deaf woman who struggle to overcome the communications gap.
• He wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies and was the co-founder of the American Southwest Theatre Company and head of the Department of Theatre Arts for nine years at New Mexico State University.
• The plays “The Wager,” ”The Hand of Its Enemy,” ”The Heart Outright,” ”The Majestic Kid” and the screenplay for the HBO movie thriller “Apology” were the other Medoff’s work.