Jacqueline (Jackie) Pardue Goldfinger is a dramaturg and award-winning playwright/screenwriter from Tallahassee, Florida (M.F.A. Screen and Television Writing, University of Southern California, 2004; B.A. English and Theater, Agnes Scott College, 2000). She is the Literary Manager at Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC).

Her work has been developed and produced at New Perspectives Theatre (New York), New York International Fringe Festival (New York), Maieutic Theatre Works (New York), Blank Theatre (Los Angeles), InterAct Theater Company (Philadelphia), Azuka Theatre (Philadelphia), Drama Garage (Los Angeles), North Coast Repertory Theatre (San Diego), Penobscot Theatre (Bangor), New Village Arts (Carlsbad), New Perspective Festival (San Diego), 13th Street Rep (New York), Northern Writes New Play Festival (Bangor), Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez), Short + Sweet Festival (Sydney, Australia), Cardboard Box Collaborative (Philadelphia), Ion Theatre (San Diego), Compass Theater (San Diego), Sewanee Writers Conference (University of the South), Festival of New Screenplays (Los Angeles), Experimental Theatre at San Diego State University (San Diego), Playwrights Collective (San Diego), Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota), Agnes Scott College (Atlanta), and the Young Playwrights Festival (Atlanta). Her independent film, Firefly, was produced and distributed by Meteor International.

Her adaptation of A Christmas Carol is published by Playscripts and her short play, His Last Fight, will be published in the 2010 Best Ten-Minute Plays anthology by Smith & Kraus.

In 2009-2010 she’s a Resident Playwright at New Perspectives Theater in New York. She has been commissioned twice by North Coast Repertory Theatre.

Her awards include: Winner, Playwrights Theatre’s National Plays for the 21st Century Competition; Winner, Ohio Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition; Winner, Film Industry Network Screenplay Competition. In 2007, she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Playwriting by the University of the South.

She works as a Dramaturg at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Native Voices, North Coast Repertory Theatre, New Village Arts, and the Collective Theatre Company and as an Assistant Dramaturg at La Jolla Playhouse and The Old Globe. She teaches Dramaturgy and Dramatic Writing at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Platt College, the Gershman Y, and San Diego Writers Ink. She’s published in LMDA Review, Beacon Street Review, Southern Theater Magazine, and La Jolla Playhouse Spotlight.

She also worked as the Artistic Assistant to Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Des McAnuff at La Jolla Playhouse, a Literary Assistant for Center Theatre Group’s 2005 New Works Festival, a Writer’s Assistant on Life of the Party, and in development at Lion’s Gate Films.

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America (DGA), the Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas (LMDA), Playwrights’ Center (PWCenter), Philadelphia Dramatists Center (PDC), and Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia (TAGP).

Profile in the San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego Union-Tribune

Contact: jacquelinegoldfinger@yahoo.com