Biography
Jacqueline Goldfinger is a Barrymore Award-winning Philadelphia playwright and the Director of Education at PlayPenn. She also co-founded The Foundry and is the Playwright-in-Residence at Azuka Theatre. Her new play Skin & Bone will be published in New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2014 and she is currently working on a commission for the 2015 Women's Voices Festival in Washington DC. Her recent play, Slip/Shot, won the Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play. Slip/Shot was also nominated for Weissberger Award, developed at PlayPenn and the Lark's Playwrights' Week, and featured in American Theatre magazine. Her other original plays include The Oath (Manhattan Theatre Works), the terrible girls (Azuka Theatre), and The Burning Season (Winner, New Plays for the 21st Century Award). She has been a finalist/semi-finalist for the Leah Ryan Playwriting Prize, the Terrence McNally Award, the Haas Award, New Dramatists, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, Next Generation Playwrights Award, and the Stone New Play Award. She's represented by Amy Wagner at Abrams Artists Agency. Read more about her work: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com
