Roger M. Rueff (13 December) is a writer whose produced dramatic works include stage plays, teleplays, and screenplays.

Movie career

His stage play ''

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'' premiered at

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in 1992 and has been subsequently produced internationally. ''So Many Words'' also premiered at South Coast Rep, where it garnered two awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle: one for best writing and the other for best play to receive its world premiere in Los Angeles or Orange counties (the Ted Schmitt Award). Rueff's works for the screen include the teleplay ''God Lives'' produced by the Magic Door Children's Theater in Chicago and '' The Big Kahuna'', his screen adaptation of ''Hospitality Suite'', starring

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and

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. ''The Big Kahuna'' premiered at the

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in September, 1999, and was one of three films nominated for the 2000

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for independent film. In 2011 he collaborated with the Italian screenwriter

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, author of '' The Art of Happiness'', at the international Boys & Girls web series, directed by Fulvio Iannucci and co-funded by the European Community to raise awareness among European teenagers on some topics, such as nutrition, use of alcohol and drugs and sexual behaviors.

Early life

Rueff was born in

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and grew up in

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. He earned a

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in 1978, an

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in 1983 and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

in 1985 in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering at the

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.''Mines Magazine'', Colorado School of Mines Alumni Association, Sep 1995, p 218.

References

External links

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