ABOUT
Short Bio:
Jacqueline Goldfinger (she/they) is a playwright, dramaturg, librettist, and poet. She’s best known for her Sci-Fi play “Babel” and Off-Broadway’s “Backwards Forwards Back.” Her awards include the Yale Prize, Smith Prize, and Opera America Discovery Award. Her plays have been produced at theaters including The Kennedy Center, École nationale de théâtre, and Court Theatre. Her opera and choral libretti have been performed at Sydney Opera House, Opera Columbus, Voces8 Live from London, and others. Her poetry has been published in American Poetry Review, Queer Words Anthology, Poetry Wales and others. She wrote the book “Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights” for Routledge. Learn more at: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com
Long Bio:
Jacqueline Goldfinger (she/they) is a playwright, dramaturg, librettist, and poet. She’s best known for her Sci-Fi play “Babel” and Off-Broadway’s “Backwards Forwards Back.” Her book, Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights, is taught at colleges and universities around the country.
Her plays have been produced by The Kennedy Center, United Solo (Off-Broadway), Court Theatre (New Zealand), École nationale de théâtre (Canada), Urbanite Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Theatre Exile, Vortex Rep, Perseverance Theatre, among others. Her work has been developed at Maryland Opera Studio, the National Theater (UK), New Georges, La Mama, Disquiet (Portugal), Drama League, Lark Playwrights Week, National New Play Network, among others. Her work has been supported by organizations including Yaddo, National Endowment for the Arts, Millay Colony, Sloan Foundation, and the Orchard Project.
Her opera, choral and art song libretti have been performed at Sydney Opera House (Australia), Opera Columbus, Resonance Works, BBC Radio 3 (UK), Voces8 Live from London (UK), Oberlin Opera, Chor Leoni (Canada), Chiesa di Ognissanti (Italy), San Diego Opera/Without Walls Festival, and others. The filmed version of her short opera, Letter to Our Children, with Composer Justine F. Chen has screened at film festivals around the world.
Her plays have won the Yale Prize, Generations Award, Smith Prize, Glaspell Prize, Best One-Person Play at United Solo Festival Off-Broadway, among others. Her opera Alice Tierney won the Opera America Discovery Award with Composer Melissa Dunphy. Her short opera film Letter to Our Children with Composer Justine F. Chen won Best Music Video at the Paris Short Film Awards.
Her plays and libretti have been published by Yale Press, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Concord Theatricals, Dramatists Play Service, Edition Peters, and others. Her poetry has been published by literary magazines including American Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and Beyond Queer Words Poetry Anthology.
She’s been commissioned by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Oberlin Opera, Maryland Opera Studio, Wilma Theater, Urbanite Theatre, National New Play Network, and others.
As a dramaturg, she specializes in new work and has worked with La Jolla Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Arden Theatre, and others.
As an educator, she has taught playwriting and dramaturgy at University of Pennsylvania, UC Davis, and others. Her academic writing includes two books, Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights and Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage published by Routledge. She was the Guest Editor for the Special Issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre themed “Revolutions in New Work Development.”
She also runs the TikTok: playwriting.with.purpose.
Education: BA English Literature-Theatre at Agnes Scott College. MFA Screenwriting at University of Southern California.
Member of Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and Opera America.
Learn more at: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com