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“Slip/Shot” World Premiere

Winner! 2012 Brown Martin Award

Winner! 2012 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play

“Like many of Goldfinger’s plays, Slip/Shot is decidedly southern gothic, with an ethereal lyricism that evokes Faulkner, McCullers, Williams.”

-American Theatre Magazine

World Premiere of Slip/Shot called “breathtaking drama”
and named One of the Top 10 Productions of 2012

When racial tensions come to a boiling point in a Florida town, even an accident can have paralyzing consequences; a heartbreaking drama about violence, fear, and our need to move forward.

Slip/Shot premiered at Flashpoint Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. Read more about Slip/Shot in American Theatre Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Metro, and Philadelphia Weekly.

Slip/Shot was a spring arts pick of the Metro and CBS Philly, and featured on the national radio programs The Takeaway and NPR on Sirius.

Slip/Shot was developed at the Lark New Play Development Center’s Playwrights’ Week and the PlayPenn New Play Conference and nominated for three 2012 Barrymore Awards.

REVIEWS

Flashpoint excels with Slip/Shot. This beautifully crafted and intensely moving drama…is served by a powerful cast and an imaginative and skilled director.” -Toby Zinman, Philadelphia Inquirer

Searing drama…movingly premiered…Celebrate the power of hope.” -Mark Cofta, City Paper

A remarkable new play…and it benefits from director Rebecca Wright’s intense production…go to Slip/Shot and be dazzled by Goldfinger’s perceptive dialogue, by characters who are intelligently and distinctly drawn, and by finely detailed observations that make the sparsely lit and designed play seem uncommonly vivid. The performances are all excellent.” -Tim Dunleavy, Talkin’ Broadway

Goldfinger has a unique poetic voice. She isn’t writing just to entertain an audience (though she manages to do so); she is writing to pose questions that have no quick, simple answers. In Slip/Shot , Goldfinger asks us to consider the basis of our suspicions and the impact America’s legacy of racism has on both our individual and national identity.” -J. Cooper Robb, Philadelphia Weekly

We are magnetically pulled into the story…a great cast and script.” -Sharon Geller, Examiner.com

I urge everyone to see this play. It is wonderful theatre that will generate deep and enlightening conversation; kudos to Flashpoint for bravely asking the questions so many of us want to avoid.” -Ellen Wilson Dilks, Stage Magazine

Jacqueline Goldfinger’s writing in Slip/Shot is assured and unhurried, offering heft, a feel for the South, and a good story. As her sheriff (Keith Conallen) says, ‘Nothin’ folks like better than a juicy story.’” -Kathryn Osenlund, CurtainUp

Painful and potent drama…we have a historic homily about family, trauma, the reality of things falling apart, and the way we grow and heal once the dust has settled and the sun rises once again. The 1960′s may be an extremely popular era these days, but the reality of this play cuts through the nostalgia of flipped hair and circle skirts, and focuses on the humans at the heart of the drama…It’s filled with darkness and the shadows of hate, but it’s also beautifully nuanced and celebrates the power that love gives us to let go, and move on…Those looking for easy answers on “how to solve the problem or racism” or “whose fault is whose” wont find anything of the sort in Goldfinger’s work. Instead, she gives her audience an examination of tragedy as it exists in life, using a painful accident and it’s ramifications to look at humanity, family and the way our experiences inform our entire lives. All of the characters in this world are valid complete human beings, regardless of how they ultimately decide to deal with Monroe’s death, and as the play ends, we are left with a sense of lingering sorrow and that all-pervasive villain hope. False or true, it’s what keeps us going, moving forward, into the future. And we have to believe that that’s better than living in the past. Have you seen the past lately? It’s a mess.” -Leah Franqui, Staged

THE COMPANY

Produced by Flashpoint Theatre Company

Directed by Rebecca Wright

Featuring Cathy Simpson, Rachel Camp, Taysha Canales, Kevin Meehan, Keith Conallen, Akeem Davis and Erik Ensley

With designs by Caitlin Lainoff, Thom Weaver, Larry Fowler and Alisa Sickora Kleckner

Photos by Johanna Austin (austinart.org)

REQUEST A COPY OF THE SCRIPT

Email: jacquelinegoldfinger@yahoo.com

 

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a “terrible” film option

My Southern Gothic horror play, the terrible girls, has been optioned for feature film development by Twilight Entertainment. Click here to read more about the original play.


Published Plays

The Oath
Indie Theater Now
(Southern Gothic drama / 5 female, 1 male)

“Outstanding drama…Wonderful, thought-provoking…Goldfinger marvelously unfolds the story with great dialogue and sympathetic characters.” -New Theater Corps, Theater Talk (NYC)

Please scroll down this page to read more about The Oath.

Raw Stitch
Indie Theater Now
(pub comedy / 1-8 female)

“A night of poetic, character-driven ribaldry…frank and funny sexuality of the saltiest kind.” -City Paper (Philadelphia)

Please scroll down this page to read more about Raw Stitch.

the terrible girls
Playscripts
(Southern Gothic dark comedy / 3 female, 1 male)

Nominated for a 2011 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play.

“A grand, grotesque little play.” -Philadelphia Inquirer

Please scroll down this page to read more about the terrible girls.

Little Women
Playscripts
(adaptation / 5 female, 2 male)

An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel as a play with music.

“Graceful adaptation…As adaptations go, this one doesn’t borrow so much as distill the rich characters and bittersweet ethos of Alcott’s sprawling novel. It’s like Little Women steeped into a pleasing tea, then sugared with humor and plenty of period music.” -San Diego Union Tribune

Please scroll down this page to read more about Little Women.

The Ghost’s Bargain
Playscripts
(adaptation / 3-10 female, 5-9 male)

An adaptation of Charles Dickens’ The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. The final book in Dickens’ cycle of Christmas novellas, The Ghost’s Bargain is a redemptive tale of world-weary Professor Redlaw who is offered the gift of forgetting every bad thing that’s ever happened to him. His gift becomes a curse in this Victorian tale told through a fantastical combination of live actors and mischievous puppets.

The large cast and simple staging is geared to high school and college students. Read more at Playscripts.

A Christmas Carol
Playscripts
(adaptation / 3 female, 7 male but flexible)

A fresh adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol that can be produced as a play with music or a straight play.

“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

Please scroll down this page to read more about A Christmas Carol.

His Last Fight
Amazon.com
(short play / 1 female, 2 male)

A boxing drama set in the deep South is published in the anthology “2010 Best 10-Minute Plays” by Smith & Kraus.

Hershel & the Hanukkah Goblins
unpublished but available
(adaptation / 3 female, 2 male)

An adaptation of the popular children’s book and beloved Yiddish folktale with puppets!

“A delight to watch.” -Philadelphia Inquirer


“Raw Stitch” World Premiere

Be Raw at home!

Download Raw Stitch from Indie Theater Now

Raw Stitch is a bawdy comedy for the enthusiastically inebriated and sexually active. Join 8 women on their gloriously drunken quests to explore their sexual identities in search of the eternal orgasm of self-knowledge.
Run time: a naughty little hour.

Raw Stitch @ the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts-Fringe Festival

We sold out our run in Philly!

“Eight Philly actresses walk into a bar. There they meet Jacqueline Goldfinger’s texts and Anna Marquardt’s original songs for a night of poetic, character-driven ribaldry. Scratch that — these women hit up Quig’s Pub to talk frank and funny sexuality of the saltiest kind.” -A.D. Amorosi, City Paper

Raw Stitch is a Philadelphia Live Arts-Fringe Pick of…
The Metro
GayPhiladelphia
The Philadelphia Inquirer
City Paper

Do you like a Peep Show?
Get a peep of the Raw Stitch dirty girls in our Photo Album.

Eight spanking new monologues:
Miss Coitus Interruptus – Amanda Schoonover
Double Slut Gene – Hannah van Scriver
Hector has Herpes (an Sing-A-Long STD PSA) - Sarah Schol
I Heart Pussy - Jennifer MacMillian
Trish Tinkler on How To Be Exciting – Megan Slater
Serial Bride - Miriam White
Southern Living Magazine – Bailey Shaw
Welcome.Goodbye - Corinna Burns

Directed by David O’Connor

Original Music by Anna Marquardt

For more information about the Philly production: www.rawstitch.com

 

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USAirways Magazine

The June 2012 issue of USAirways Magazine published a spread on Philadelphia theater and two of my plays were mentioned; the 2011 production of the terrible girls at Azuka Theatre Company and the 2012 production of Slip/Shot (with photo) at Flashpoint. Download the PDF here: USAirways Magazine.


American Theatre Magazine & Philadelphia Magazine

Both American Theatre Magazine and Philadelphia Magazine published profiles of me in April 2012.

Click HERE to read the Philly Mag article.

Click HERE to read the American Theatre article.


Barrymore Award Nominee

the terrible girls was nominated for a 2011 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play. A big thank you to Azuka Theatre, Kevin Glaccum, Allison Heishman, and all of the wonderful artists involved in bringing this play to life this spring! A special thanks to the Theatre Alliance for the nomination.


PlayPenn & Lark’s Playwrights’ Week

Slip/Shot will have two staged readings in 2011. It will be featured at the PlayPenn New Play Conference in Philadelphia, PA and the Lark Play Development Center’s Playwrights’ Week in New York City.

The Philadelphia CityPaper wrote an article on the development of Slip/Shot during PlayPenn.


“the terrible girls” World Premiere

A Dark Comedy

Script available from Playscripts

Nominated for a 2011 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play

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 a terrible secret. It’s a wild mix of fearless comedy and Southern Gothic horror.

Rep Radio interview on “Inside the Writer’s Mind” with Krissy Scatton: Rep Radio.

REVIEWS

A grand, grotesque little play…Azuka Theatre is giving the terrible girls, an entertaining new theater piece by Jacqueline Goldfinger, a top-notch premiere.” -Philadelphia Inquirer

Tasty, tart and terrible meal…Smoothly crafted amusingly dark text.” -Staged

Captivating play by Jacqueline Goldfinger…This is an immensely entertaining and thought provoking play that will leave audiences with a great sense of satisfaction resulting from excellent performances in a superbly well-staged production. This is a play that will be appreciated on a great many levels. It is a dark comedy for sure, but, it will also reach deep within the hearts of its audience as it delves into the complex inner lives of these three wonderfully constructed characters. ” -Stage Magazine

3 Women comes to mind…Sharp comic timing brings a vital levity to the cutting plot twists and nightmarish revelations. It’s an interesting examination of need for authority, whether real or imagined, that keeps us in the most precarious situations. Emotional needs beat logic to the truth in this pressure-cooker drama.” -CityPaper

Smoky, provocative and refreshing…As the best theater does, it forces us to reflect and leaves us in awe of what we witnessed on stage. Plus… there’s fake blood and a great soundtrack and lots of laughs.” -Uwishunu.com

Featuring Amanda Schoonover, Kristyn Chouiniere, Zura Johnson, Nathan Holt

THE COMPANY

Produced by Azuka Theatre

Kevin Glaccum, Artistic Director

Allison Heishman, Director

Mike Troncone, Technical Director

Terry Smith, Production Manager

Lauren Tracy, Stage Manager

Dirk Durosette, Set Designer

Dan Perelestein, Sound Design

Josh Schulman, Lighting Design

Alisa Sickora-Kleckner, Costume Design

Amanda Hatch, Props

Tanya Leppert, Assistant Director

Shannon Fitzsimmons, Assistant Stage Manager

John Greenbaum, Assistant Sound Designer

the terrible girls Fringe Short

A short, one-act version of the terrible girls was presented at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival.

Company

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

Reviews

“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

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“The Oath” Off-Off Broadway

A Southern Gothic Drama

Script available from Indie Theater Now

In this Southern Gothic tale set during the Great Depression, a wandering preacher is embroiled in the passions and politics of a swampy Florida outpost ruled with a macabre sense of justice by two rival sisters. A darkly comic look at balancing ambition and ideals in a time of crisis. The San Diego Union-Tribune calls Goldfinger’s writing “something out of Faulkner.”

Produced by Maieutic Theatre Works; David Stallings, Artistic Director.

Read an interview with the playwright in United Stages: Interview

REVIEWS

Magnificent” & “Soulful” -Theatre Buzz (NYC)

Outstanding drama…Wonderful, thought-provoking…Goldfinger marvelously unfolds the story with great dialogue and sympathetic characters.” -New Theater Corps, Theater Talk (NYC)

An intriguing journey through the swampy American SouthThe Oath sends its audience upon a mind-enriching exploration in which we leave with more questions than answers—questions that will haunt even the most resistant audience member’s mind.” -Show Business Weekly

It’s perhaps due to [Goldfinger’s] deliberate subtlety that The Oath’s symbolism is so affecting. The story is laden with religious parallels, questions of female identity and themes of secrecy and familial duty, but the presence of a nationwide crisis that hovers over its cast of characters is what allows us to relate to them right off the bat—even before Goldfinger dismantles, in a startlingly effective manner, the initial archetypes that these characters represent.” -OffOffOnline

THE COMPANY

Anthony Crep as Joshua; Sarah Chaney as Ofah; Dianna Martin as Deck; Louise Flory as Cebe; Robin Madel as Mrs. Lecroix; Maureen O’Boyle as Lady; Cristina Alicea, Director; David Stallings, Artistic Director; Julie Griffith, Producer; Antonio Miniño/Kampfire PR, Press Agent; Blair Mielnik, Scenic Design; Martha Goode, Sound Designer; Dan Gallegher, Lighting Designer; Jessica Hooks, Costume Designer; Jarid Sumner, Production Manager; Raisa Noelle, Production Stage Manager

Set design by Blair Mielnik


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