Information will be updated as it is released.

Last Fight PR Photo. Christmas Carol Advertisement. Slip/Shot Staged Reading.

February 2008
Blood Oranges: Production, Short + Sweet Festival, Sydney Australia

May 2008
A Christmas Carol: Publication, Playscripts

The Oath: Staged Reading, Northern Writes New Play Festival, Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, Maine

June 2008
The Oath: PlayLabs, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska

July 2008
His Last Fight: Production, Compass Theatre, San Diego, California

Slip/Shot: A Ghost Story: Workshop, Cardboard Box Collaborative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 2008
Slip/Shot: A Ghost Story: Staged Reading, Cardboard Box Collaborative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

December 2008
The Burning Season: Staged Reading, Blank Theatre Company, Los Angeles

The Burning Season: Staged Reading, New Village Arts, Carlsbad, California

A Christmas Carol: Production, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Solana Beach, California

For information about where Goldfinger will be Dramaturging & Teaching as well as production details, please click on NEWS. For information about hiring Goldfinger as a Dramaturg, Instructor, or Script Consultant, please click on DRAMATURGY & TEACHING.

A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION

A Christmas Carol is published by Playscripts
and will be remounted by North Coast Repertory Theatre in December 2008

“Traditional Carol finds new ways to delight.” -SanDiego.com

“Lively, imaginative and magical in every way.” -North County Times

“Best Bet! This is the one to see.” -San Diego Theatre Scene

“CRITIC’S CHOICE! Pure and moving and true…What’s startling about Jacqueline Goldfinger’s new adaptation, commissioned by the theater, is the way it hews so closely to the original 1843 novella, yet finds a way to make it feel naturally, gracefully theatrical…the genius of Goldfinger’s approach is in how she uses [the carolers] to tease out the shadings of humor, anger and irony in the first-person narrator’s voice…it’s a sweet affirmation of life.”
-San Diego Union-Tribune

Produced by North Coast Repertory Theatre

Directed by Joe Powers

Starring Ron Choularton, Amanda Cowles, Susan Denaker, Brian Mackey, Jesse MacKinnon, Austyn Myers, Donal Pugh, John Tessmer, Racahel Van Wormer, Patrick Wenk-Wolff

The Burning Season won the Playwrights Theatre’s nationwide Plays for the 21st Century Competition. Click on The Burning Season under AvailableScripts to read an excerpt.

EVERYONE LOVES TO BE TERRIBLE

“Ominous. Mysterious. Three Stars.” -Time Out, New York

“All the smokiness of a Southern Gothic drama.” -Backstage

“Suspenseful and provocative…a refreshing new story admirably written…What makes this play different than a mundane portrait of the modern South is its mythic quality. the terrible girls forces us to reflect on the duality of human nature and witness how deceit, desire, and obsession can lead to transgression.” -NYTheatre.com

the terrible girls is a wicked dark comedy of friendship, obsession, and Southern sensibilities. Two women battle for the love of one man, while the third guards his terrible secret. “It’s a wild mix of fearless comedy and Southern Gothic horror,” says Kristina Meeks, Founder, Playwrights Collective.

Produced by New York International Fringe Festival

Directed by Chelsea Whitmore

Starring Rhianna Basore, Keiana Richard, Amanda Sitton, and Mark Smith Emerson

Poster design by Deanna Staffo Staffo Designs

A BIG THANK YOU to all of our wonderful friends at FringeNYC for an AMAZING run during the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival!

My primary goal as a playwright is to reinvent the classic genre of Southern Gothic fiction for the stage.

Growing up in the rural South, I was fascinated by the stories of William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Anne Porter, and began writing short stories in elementary school. In fifth grade, I discovered the theatre during a local production of School for Scandal at Florida State University. A great disappointment of my youth was seeing the Southern Gothic genre destroyed on the stage either by soap opera melodrama or a perverse misunderstanding that “Gothic” simply meant “Horror.”

My work cleaves to the Southern Gothic style as portrayed in classic fiction - a style that heightens reality, gives epic importance to everyday situations, and embraces the macabre as a necessary, and instructive, part of life – yet transforms this literary style into an active and dramatic narrative for the stage. I hope that in 100 years, when a scholar writes a history of the early-21st Century American literature, she will be able to write that the Southern Gothic genre was revitalized on the stage.

“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.” -Flannery O’Connor

SYNOPSIS: A Southern Gothic love triangle with a surreal twist.

CAST: 3 male, 3 female

Winner, Playwright Theatre’s 2007 National New Plays for the 21st Century Competition