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rtropf@earthlink.net Having been a playwright and screenwriter for over twenty years, RALPH TROPF'S full-length play Shadow Hour is published by Samuel French. His screenplay, The Orchid and the Cross, was a semi-finalist for a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. He has written for FOX Television, MTV, SONY Videogames and Warner Brothers Pictures. He attended the University of Central Florida. After graduation he worked for several years as an actor. He has been on stage with Charles Durning in Mass Appeal, with Robert Hays in Heaven Can Wait (directed by Marsha Mason), and in a revival of Bye Bye Birdie with Charles Nelson Reilly. He has appeared in the television series' General Hospital and Port Charles. His first play, a musical called Being In Love, was produced in New York in 1985 and a second musical for children, Harmonius, premiered in Stamford, Connecticut. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, offered him a scholarship to attend their graduate program. His plays The Hourglass and Squid and Felicity won awards from THE KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE FESTIVAL. After graduating he moved to L.A. where he studied screenwriting with Richard Walter of UCLA. In 1999, his screenplay The Orchid and the Cross was named semi-finalist for a prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Ralph served as Executive Producer on the first production of his play Shadow Hour at the Stella Adler Theater. Shadow Hour was published in 2000 by Samuel French. His play Impression: Sunrise was developed in readings at The American Renegade Theater Company (LA) and The Moving Arts Theater Company (LA), the Acrosstown Repertory (Gainesville, FL) and New American Theatre in Rockford, IL. Ralph worked as the Coordinating Segment Producer on the FOX television series, Police Videos. His screenplay, The Orchid and the Cross, was a semi-finalist for the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. He recently created pilots for two new cartoons, and continues to work on the project for Age of Knowledge, Inc. He is a Humanities professor in Los Angeles. | ||
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