Hayley Goldenberg

HAYLEY GOLDENBERG

musical theatre writer & director

Addie Symonds Photography

Addie Symonds Photography

Addie Symonds Photography

HAYLEY GOLDENBERG (she/her) is a New York City-based, Toronto-raised and Santa Barbara-born queer feminist musical theatre maker. She is currently developing two musicals: Faye and Plane Girl.

Most recently, Plane Girl was selected for the 2024 New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab and New Works Series, the 2024 MTEA New Works Collaboration Catalogue, and as the inaugural new musical in the new works development program at Manhattanville University. Other Accolades Include: 35th Annual NAMT Festival of New Musicals (Featured Lyricist) 2023 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project (Selected Participant), National Centre of New Musicals (Semifinalist), New Works New Voices (Semifinalist), Bechdel Project (Semifinalist), Musical Creators’ Institute (Fellow - Inaugural Class), New Bad Ideas Musical Development Program (Finalist), Bravo Academy/New Music Theatre Intensives commissioned songwriter. Hayley’s musical work has been featured on stages and in concert venues across the United States & Canada including New World Stages, 54 Below, Green Room 42 and others.

As a director, Hayley specializes in new musical development and has been a part of bringing several new musicals to the stage at various stages of development. She’s served on the directing team for Helen (with Bonnie Milligan), Spiral Bound (with Laura Benanti and Eva Noblezada), All We Know of Love & Fire, The Baroque Cycle, Perpetual Sunshine and the Ghost Girls (with Kayla Davion) and others. She is also a proud member of Maestra, DGA, and ASCAP and is the co-founder of the Women & Theatre Project.

 

Musical Projects

 

Recent Performances

Spiral Bound - Hayley working with actor Eva Noblezada

Sense & Sensibility - Blueshore Centre for the Performing Arts - Movement Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls - NAMT - Directing Observership 2023

Baroque Cycle - Teatro Latea - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Hayley working with the cast of To Family! 2019

All We Know of Love & Fire - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Photo by Addie Symonds

All We Know of Love & Fire - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Photo by Addie Symonds

Hayley working at the 2023 NAMT Festival

Baroque Cycle - Teatro Latea - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project Cohort & Faculty 2023

Death of An Underling - Theatre Now - Associate Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

All We Know of Love & Fire - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Photo by Addie Symonds

Hayley with collaborator Amy Andrews interviewing Lin-Manuel Miranda at the RISE Summit for Women & Theatre

Back to Broadway: The Music of Canaan J. Harris - Hayley Goldenberg with Julia Sonya Koyfman and Canaan J. Harris
Photo by Ian McQueen

54 Celebrates Hanukkah: A Festival of Writers - Hayley Goldenberg with Julia Sonya Koyfman and concert host Michael Kushner

All We Know of Love & Fire - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Photo by Addie Symonds

Hayley working with actor, Hallie Bond, for Just Running Late Concert at Laurie Beechman Theatre 2021

All We Know of Love & Fire - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Photo by Addie Symonds

Hayley Goldenberg with collaborators Julia Sonya Koyfman and Chloe Geller with mentor Zina Goldrich

Graduating Cohort at MCI at the Dramatists Guild

Jane the Queen - MCI Reading Cast - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Hayley with MCI cohort at the taping for the 2021 Tony Awards

NAMT Festival Midday Cabaret - Featured lyricist

All We Know of Love & Fire - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Photo by Addie Symonds

Cast & Creative Team of Plane Girl at Manhattanville University

Hayley with her Directing Observership Cohort at the NAMT Festival 2023

Faye MCI Reading Cast 2022 - Book/Lyrics by Hayley Goldenberg & Julia Sonya Koyfman

Plane Girl - Hayley Goldenberg with collaborator Canaan J. Harris at the first reading of Plane Girl 2023

To Family! Workshop/Reading Cast 2019 - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Hayley interviews composer Lynne Shankel at the 2023 NAMT Conference

Women of the Wings Volume V at 54 Below

Plane Girl - MCI Reading Cast - Direction/Book/Lyrics by Hayley Goldenberg 2023

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