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Jacqueline Goldfinger | |
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| Born | Jacqueline Elizabeth Pardue Tallahassee, Florida U.S. |
| Language | English |
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| Genre | Playwriting, Libretto, poetry, non-fiction |
| Children | 3 |
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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.
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:
Her full-length adaptations include:
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.