Dana Leslie Goldstein

Playwright and lyricist Dana Leslie Goldstein has won the New England New Play Competition, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Prize, Different Voices “New Play” Award, ACTF “New Play Award,” the Henry Hoyns Poetry Fellowship, AWP Intro Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and numerous development grants. Her work has been seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, Cherry Lane, Culture Project, Julia Miles Theater (Women’s Project), The York, Theatre80, Theater for the New City, New Dramatists, Center Stage, BMI, Vineyard Playhouse, Pulse, Theater Row Theatre, Gene Frankel Theatre, the Barrow Group, Acorn Theatre, The Lark, Beckett Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, the Workshop Theater, Torn Page, Nuyorican Poets Café, Estrogenius Festival, Brave New World Rep, Players Club of Swarthmore (Pennsylvania), Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, Clamour Theatre (Florida), American Stage Company (St. Petersburg), Left Edge Theatre (California), Pacific Theatre (Vancouver), TischAsia (Singapore), NYMF, on Ellis and Liberty Islands, at the United Nations, and on Equity TYA tours.

Dana’s newest full-length play, Go Down, Moses, was featured at American Stage’s 21st Century Voices Festival. It was selected for both Brave New World Rep’s Brave New Works Festival (via Zoom 2021) and the PCS New Play Festival in Pennsylvania (Summer 2022). It was a finalist in the Jewish Plays Project’s national and regional contests (Spring 2021) and a semi-finalist for the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Ashland New Plays Festival, and the 2022 Athena “Plays in Progress” Series (2022). Monologues from several of Dana’s plays are published by Applause Books in the 2021 anthology She Persisted and by Smith & Kraus in Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2021. A collection of Dana’s short plays was published by Next Stage Press in 2021 under the title Birth, Death & Bourbon: 3 Short Plays by Dana Leslie Goldstein. Her play The God Part is published in Best Short Plays of 2021 (Smith & Kraus). Monologues will also appear in the 2022 editions of Best Men’s Stage Monologues and Best Women’s Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus). Dana is a librettist in the BMI/Lehmann Engel Musical Theatre Workshop as well as a playwright member of the Workshop Theater. She has been a member of the Playwrights Lab at Women’s Project, NewShoe, and the Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation Emerging Playwrights Lab. Dana holds MFA degrees in both Playwriting and Poetry, each of which were funded by full writing fellowships. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Honors & Presentations Include: The God Part (Left Edge Theatre Festival, Old Library Theatre’s 11th Annual One-Act Play Festival finalist), Daughters of the Sexual Revolution (Brave New Works Festival), Go Down, Moses (PCS New Play Festival, Athena Project semi-finalist, 2021 Jewish Plays Project finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, Ashland New Plays Festival semi-finalist), Undiscovered Country (Estrogenius Festival), Red in the Morning (De Front Productions, Torn Page). Publications Include: Fragile (Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2022, Smith & Kraus), Eat Dessert First (Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2022, Smith & Kraus), Birth, Death & Bourbon: 3 Short Plays by Dana Leslie Goldstein (Next Stage Press), The God Part (Best 10-Minute Plays of 2021, Smith & Kraus), Go Down, Moses (Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2021, Smith & Kraus, She Persisted, Applause Books), Cyclone and the Pig-Faced Lady, Daughters of the Sexual Revolution, Chicken & The Egg (She Persisted, Applause Books). Recordings Include: Liberty, a monumental musical (Off-Broadway cast recording available on iTunes, Amazon, Broadway records sites).

Liberty, a monumental musical is available for national and international licensing through Miracle or 2 Productions, NYC.

Natural, Undiscovered Country & Red in the Morning are available through Next Stage Press.