Lisa Goldman
| Lisa Goldman | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 1964 (age 52) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Theatre director, writer and script consultant |
| Website | lisagoldman |
Lisa Goldman is a British theatre director, dramaturg, writer and author. She was Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive of Soho Theatre (2006–10) and The Red Room Theatre Company which she founded (1995-2006). In 2008 Lisa was included in the London Evening Standard’s ‘Influentials’ list as one of the 1000 most influential people in London.
Lisa’s book The No Rules Handbook for Writers was published by Oberon Books in April 2012. It was cited by The Stage as one of their top 10 training books of 2012 and was an Amazon UK digital bestseller during November 2012.
Lisa Goldman (born November 1964) grew up in Walthamstow and Chingford, east London, where she attended local state schools. She went on to gain a first class BA Hons in Drama and English from Loughborough University (1987), a postgraduate diploma in Directing from Drama Studio London (1988) and an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, London (EU/UK scholarship 2013).
Lisa started writing, devising and directing plays at university. Her final project was a physical ecofeminist piece called Mute inspired by Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin. Her graduating project from drama school in 1988 was the British premiere of Heiner Müller’s poetic trilogy, Despoiled Shore, Medeamaterial and Landscape with Argonauts. In 1994 she premiered another trilogy of Heiner Müller's work, Russian Gambit, The Duel and The Foundling.
Lisa’s first professional theatre job was directing a national tour of Twelfth Night which opened at Pleasance 2 at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988. Other early freelance work included assisting at Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East. At Theatre Royal she also worked as a researcher for Down Every Street and was a commissioned writer on Discover my Dream and The Good Society. She was Youth Theatre Director 1988-9. Elsewhere Lisa ran playwriting workshops in schools and directed young people's plays including for Travelling Light and Inner City Theatre Company. She also wrote plays (see Writing). She spent two months recording interviews with residents in East Berlin in 1991-2 about the experience of reunification, for her play Electra in Berlin.
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