Jacqueline Goldfinger
Jacqueline Goldfinger
Born
Jacqueline Elizabeth Pardue
Tallahassee, Florida U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Education
  • MFA University of Southern California
  • BA Agnes Scott College
GenrePlaywriting, Libretto, poetry, non-fiction
Children3
Website
www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com

Jacqueline Goldfinger is an American playwright and librettist best known for her award winning plays Babel and The Arsonists. She wrote the popular book, Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights.

Career

Writing for the stage

Goldfinger began her career in fringe theater creating site-specific work with the San Diego Playwrights Collective and touring a one-act version of The Terrible Girls to the New York International Fringe Festival.[1]

Her full-length original plays include:

  • The Burning Season
  • Slip/Shot[2][3] (Barrymore Award)
  • Bottle Fly[4] (Yale Prize) (publisher Yale Press)
  • Babel[5][6][7] (Smith Prize, Generations Award) (publisher Theatrical Rights Worldwide/TRW Plays)
  • Arsonist[8] (publisher Samuel French/Concord Theatricals)
  • The Terrible Girls[9] (publisher Playscripts)
  • Click[10] (publisher Theatrical Rights Worldwide/TRW Plays)
  • Skin & Bone[11]
  • Backwards Forwards Back[12] (Glaspell Award)

Her full-length adaptations include:

  • A Wind in the Door[13][14] (publisher Stage Partners)
  • The Little Mermaid[15] (publisher Theatrical Rights Worldwide/TRW Plays)
  • Little Women[16] (publisher Playscripts)
  • A Christmas Carol[17] (publisher Playscripts)

Her libretti include:

Her works have been developed and produced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, BBC 3 Radio (UK), Perseverance Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Voces8 (UK), Disquiet (Portugal), Gate Theatre (New Zealand), New Georges, Oberlin Opera, St. Martin in the Fields (UK), McCarter Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Theatre Exile, Unicorn Theatre, Resonance Works, Capitol Stage, Azuka Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Arden Theatre, The National Theater (UK), Philadelphia Theatre Company, People's Light and Theatre Company, Amuse Singers, Vortex Rep, Women's Theatre Festival, NYC International Fringe, and others. She's been a dramaturg for theatre companies including La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe (San Diego), Philadelphia Theater Company, Native Voices, and the Arden Theater. She's taught at University of California, Davis, University of California, San Diego, and University of Pennsylvania.

Major publications

  • Halcyon Days (choral), Edition Peters
  • Bottle Fly (play), Yale Press
  • The Arsonists (play), Samuel French/Concord Theatricals
  • The Terrible Girls (play), Playscripts
  • Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights (2nd ed.). Routledge. 2025. ISBN 978-1032825908.
  • Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage (1st ed.). Routledge. 2022. ISBN 978-1-000-63705-2.
  • Guest Editor, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Spring 2023, theme of "Revolutions in New Work Development"[26]

References

  1. ^Comer, Ronald (24 March 2011). ""the terrible girls": A Southern Gothic Drama". Stage Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  2. ^BWW News Desk. "Seattle Public Theater to Present Jacqueline Goldfinger's SLIP/SHOT, 9/25-10/12". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  3. ^Rosenberg, Amy S. (10 April 2012). "Trayvon Martin shooting has parallels with new play 'Slip/Shot,' premiering in Philadelphia". www.inquirer.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. ^"Yale Drama Series Winners". Yale University Press. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
  5. ^"A Woman Faces a Painful Choice and a Tough-Talking Stork in "Babel"; Passage Presents an Online Reading of Jacqueline Goldfinger's Dark Comedy | Town Topics". Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  6. ^Tran, Diep (2019-06-18). "The Kilroys Release Newest List of Noteworthy Plays by Women". AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  7. ^"The List 2019 | The Kilroys". 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  8. ^"The Arsonists". Concord Theatricals. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  9. ^"the terrible girls by Jacqueline Goldfinger | Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  10. ^Bernstein, Jesse (2019-03-26). "'Click' Explores Collision of Tech, Identity". Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  11. ^"Review: A 'Skin & Bone' with plenty of meat". WHYY. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  12. ^"BACKWARDS FORWARDS BACK | March 24 - April 23, 2023". urbanitetheatre. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  13. ^Homer, Dara. "BWW Review: A WIND IN THE DOOR at the Kennedy Center". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  14. ^Mostafavi, Kendall (2021-09-08). "Kennedy Center opens a fantastic 'Wind in the Door' for kids". DC Metro Theater Arts. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  15. ^"The Little Mermaid". Hangar - Ithaca, NY. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  16. ^"Little Women adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger | Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  17. ^"A Christmas Carol adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger | Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  18. ^Generations by Melissa Dunphy - Philadelphia Composer, retrieved 2024-06-29
  19. ^"Dominick DiOrio | home". dominickdiorio.com. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  20. ^"MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO PERFORMANCES | School of Music". music.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  21. ^"Oberlin Conservatory Commissions Star Composer Melissa Dunphy". Classical Post. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  22. ^"6 New Compositions - Meet the Composers — VOCES8 Foundation". VOCES8 Foundation. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  23. ^"Solstice: VOCES8 & The Aeolians". Opera Today. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  24. ^"BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers (4/5)". BBC. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  25. ^"Letter to Our Children". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  26. ^"Publications". Jacqueline Goldfinger. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
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