Background
Graff was born in New York City, the son of Judith Clarice (née Oxhorn), a piano teacher and choirmaster, and Jerome Lawrence Graff, a musician.
Graff was born in New York City, the son of Judith Clarice (née Oxhorn), a piano teacher and choirmaster, and Jerome Lawrence Graff, a musician.
State University of New York at Purchase.
Graff is an alumnus both as a camper and counselor of the Stagedoor Manor performing arts summer camp in upstate New New York He sang on the original-cast albums of Sesame Street (1970) and the follow-up Sesame Street 2 (1971). He garnered fame in 1975 when he joined the cast of the Public Broadcasting Service children"s television series The Electric Company.
Graff"s writing credits include Camp, Used People, The Vanishing, and The Beautician and the Beast.
Graff acted in several films including Death to Smoochy, Dominick and Eugene, Strange Days, Not Quite Paradise, and The Abyss. He starred in the 1987 Office-Broadway musical Birds of Paradise as Homer.
In 2006, Graff directed the stage musical 13 by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish at the Mark Taper Forum. In 2009, he co-wrote and directed the film Bandslam.
In 2012 he wrote and directed the film Joyful Noise.
1984 Tony Award nominee as Featured Actor in a Musical for Baby Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (2012) Made in Hollywood (2011) Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (2009) Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1970"s (2009) Under Pressure: Making "The Abyss (1993) Joyful Noise (2012) Bandslam (2009) Camp (2003) The Beautician and the Beast (1997) Angie (1994) The Vanishing (1993) Fly by Night (1993) Used People (1992).
Playing the role of Jesse, a member of the Short Circus, he remained with the show to the end of its production in 1977 (replacing Stephen Gustafson).