Jacqueline Goldfinger

COURSES TAUGHT
Writing Workshop: Pulitzer Prompts 
Writing Genre for the Stage: Horror and Sci-Fi
Plays in Progress Mentor

"I believe that the arts are critical resources for transforming society and solving complex problems. I see artists as the visionaries. We must create and share our work so that society can both see itself reflected to more deeply understand itself, and, to inspire audiences with a vision of what is possible for us all."

Interests: comedy, genre work, character-based storytelling, social critique, satire

Jacqueline Goldfinger (she/they) is a writer who grew up in the rural South and is best known for her work in the Southern Gothic genre. She won the Yale Drama Prize, Smith Prize, Generations Award, Brown Martin Award, Barrymore Award, and Philadelphia Critics Award. Her plays have been on The Kilroy’s List (three times). She's been nominated for the Weissberger Award, Blackburn Prize, and Foote Prize. Her book, Bottle Fly, published by Yale Press, was a finalist at the International Book Awards. Her plays have been developed at theaters including: New Georges/Off-Broadway, The National Theatre/London, Wilma Theatre, The Kennedy Center, La MaMa, Disquiet/Lisbon, McCarter Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Barrow Group/Off-Broadway, Kitchen Dog Theater, Sacred Fools, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, and Kansas City Rep. Her plays have been produced at theaters including: Perseverance Theatre, The Court Theatre/New Zealand, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Capital Stage Company, Hangar Theatre, The Seattle Public, Theatre Exile, Unicorn Theatre, The Vortex, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. Her librettos include Set Myself Free, composer Melissa Dunphy. She and Dunphy are working on a new opera which will world premiere in 2023 at Oberlin Opera. She is currently commissioned by The Wilma Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Oberlin Opera, EST/Sloan Foundation, and Florida Studio Theater. She has created  and staged community-based site specific work for Fringe Arts, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Reading Terminal Market, and University of the Arts. Her work is published by Yale Press, Samuel French, Playscripts, Smith & Krause, and Blackbird Literary Journal. You can read her unpublished work on the New Play Exchange. Her work has been supported by YADDO, Opera America, National Endowment for the Arts, The Millay Colony, The Lark’s Playwrights Week, The Orchard Project, New Georges'‘Audrey Residency, Drama League, Emerson Stage, PlayPenn New Play Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Independence Foundation, and The Mitten Lab, among others. She is an Affiliated Artist at New Georges, National New Play Network, and The Lark Playwright’s Center. She is a member of the writers’ labs at Azuka Theatre and The Barrow Group.  She has taught playwriting at colleges and theaters including: Temple University (MFA Program), University of Pennsylvania, McCarter Theatre, University of the Arts, Rowan University, PlayPenn, UC Davis, and Theatre Lab. MFA University of Southern California. BA Agnes Scott College. Represented by The Gurman Agency. For more information: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com