Jacqueline Goldfinger Explained
Jacqueline Goldfinger |
Birth Name: | Jacqueline Elizabeth Pardue |
Birth Place: | Tallahassee, Florida U.S. |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Playwriting, Libretto, poetry, non-fiction |
Children: | 3 |
Jacqueline Goldfinger is an American playwright and librettist best known for her award winning plays Babel and Bottle Fly. She also wrote the popular textbook, Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Emerging Writers.
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:
- Generations Cycle: The Morning Song, The Darkest Hour, and The Great Work (choral): Composer Melissa Dunphy
- A Bright Mornin Dawns (choral): Composer Dominick DiOrio[18]
- Twa (opera): Composer Justine F. Chen [19]
- Alice Tierney (opera): Composer Melissa Dunphy [20]
- Halcyon Days (choral): Composer Melissa Dunphy,[21] [22] [23] (publisher Edition Peters)
- Letter to Our Children (short opera): Composer Justine F. Chen,[24]
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
- Book: Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights . 2021 . Routledge . 978-1-000-42506-2 . 1st.
- Book: Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage . 2022 . Routledge . 978-1-000-63705-2 . 1st.
- Guest Editor, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Spring 2023, theme of "Revolutions in New Work Development"[25]
Notes and References
- Web site: Comer. Ronald. "the terrible girls": A Southern Gothic Drama. 2021-09-27. Stage Magazine. 24 March 2011 . en-US.
- Web site: BWW News Desk. Seattle Public Theater to Present Jacqueline Goldfinger's SLIP/SHOT, 9/25-10/12. 2021-05-22. BroadwayWorld.com. en.
- Web site: Rosenberg . Amy S. . Trayvon Martin shooting has parallels with new play 'Slip/Shot,' premiering in Philadelphia. 2021-05-21. www.inquirer.com. 10 April 2012 . en.
- Web site: Yale Drama Series Winners . Yale University Press . December 3, 2021.
- Web site: 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. 2021-05-21. en-US.
- Web site: Tran. Diep. 2019-06-18. The Kilroys Release Newest List of Noteworthy Plays by Women. 2021-05-21. AMERICAN THEATRE. en-US.
- Web site: 2019-06-12. The List 2019 The Kilroys. 2021-07-04. en-US.
- Web site: The Arsonists. 2021-05-21. Concord Theatricals. en.
- Web site: the terrible girls by Jacqueline Goldfinger Playscripts Inc.. 2021-05-21. www.playscripts.com.
- Web site: Bernstein. Jesse. 2019-03-26. 'Click' Explores Collision of Tech, Identity. 2021-05-21. Jewish Exponent. en-US.
- Web site: Review: A 'Skin & Bone' with plenty of meat. 2021-05-21. WHYY. en-US.
- Web site: BACKWARDS FORWARDS BACK March 24 - April 23, 2023 . 2022-12-04 . urbanitetheatre . en.
- Web site: Homer. Dara. BWW Review: A WIND IN THE DOOR at the Kennedy Center. 2021-09-10. BroadwayWorld.com. en.
- Web site: Mostafavi. Kendall. 2021-09-08. Kennedy Center opens a fantastic 'Wind in the Door' for kids. 2021-09-10. DC Metro Theater Arts. en-US.
- Web site: The Little Mermaid. 2021-07-15. Hangar - Ithaca, NY. en.
- Web site: Little Women adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger Playscripts Inc.. 2021-09-27. www.playscripts.com.
- Web site: A Christmas Carol adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger Playscripts Inc.. 2021-09-27. www.playscripts.com.
- Web site: Dominick DiOrio home . 2022-12-04 . dominickdiorio.com.
- Web site: MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO PERFORMANCES School of Music . 2022-12-04 . music.umd.edu . en.
- Web site: Oberlin Conservatory Commissions Star Composer Melissa Dunphy. 2021-07-04. Classical Post. en-US.
- Web site: 6 New Compositions - Meet the Composers — VOCES8 Foundation. 2021-07-04. VOCES8 Foundation. en-GB.
- Web site: 2020-12-08. Solstice: VOCES8 & The Aeolians. 2021-07-04. Opera Today. en-US.
- Web site: BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers (4/5). 2021-07-04. BBC. en-GB.
- Web site: Letter to Our Children . 2022-12-04 . FilmFreeway . en.
- Web site: Publications . 2022-12-04 . Jacqueline Goldfinger . en-US.