Hayley Goldenberg

Hayley Goldenberg

musical theatre writer & director

Addie Symonds Photography

 

Addie Symonds Photography

Addie Symonds Photography

HAYLEY GOLDENBERG (she/her) is a queer, feminist theatre writer and director based in New York City. 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 Catalog, 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), Syracuse 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 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 - Assistant Direction by Hayley Goldenberg
Hayley working with actor Eva Noblezada

Sense & Sensibility - Movement Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Plane Girl at New York Theatre Barn - Book, Music & Lyrics by Hayley Goldenberg, Canaan J. Harris & Julia Sonya Koyfman
Photo by Kayleen Bertrand

Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls - NAMT - Directing Assistant 2022

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 2022 NAMT Festival

Baroque Cycle - Teatro Latea - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project Cohort & Faculty 2023

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 - Dramatists Guild - Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

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

NAMT Festival Midday Cabaret - Featured Lyricist along with collaborator Julia Sonya Koyfman

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

Cast & Creative Team of Plane Girl at Manhattanville University
Direction by Hayley Goldenberg

Hayley with her Cohort at the NAMT Festival 2022

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 2022 NAMT Conference

Women of the Wings Volume V at 54 Below

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

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