Education
New York University; Stuyvesant High School.
playwright screenwriter author
New York University; Stuyvesant High School.
He wrote Queen of the Stardust Ballroom in 1975 and Ballroom in 1978, which were nominated for an Emmy and Tony, respectively. Jerome Kass was born in Chicago to Sidney Kass and Celia Gorman, and had two sisters, Francine and Gail. The family moved to the Bronx, where Kass went to school, attending Stuyvesant High School before graduating from New York University.
He entered the graduate program for English, then transferred to Brandeis University.
Kass died of prostate cancer in Manhattan on October 22, 2015.