Remember This

Goldman is the chair of Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts and Director of the Theater & Performance Studies Program, as well as co-founding director of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, with the mission to harness the power of performance to humanize global politics. He is an award-winning stage director, playwright/ adapter, scholar, producer, and developer of new work, whose work has been seen around the country, off-Broadway, and internationally. His work has been seen at theaters such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Folger Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Segal Centre (Montreal), Olney Theatre Center, and others. He is the author of more than 30 professionally produced plays and adaptations, including work published by Samuel French, and he has directed over 100 productions. His engagement with global performance in recent years has taken his work to Sudan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, China, Poland, South Africa, Australia, Peru, Bulgaria, Armenia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, France, and throughout the UK, among other places. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG); vice-president of UNESCO’s International Theatre Institute; and Founding Director of the global Network of Higher Education in the Performing Arts. He holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. At Georgetown he received the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers and the Provost’s Award for Innovation in Teaching for his creation of In Your Shoes, a groundbreaking approach that uses performance to address polarization in communities around the US and globally.

NEW YORK: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski (as My Report to the World) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage; INTERNATIONAL: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski at Queen Mary University, London; with Teatr IMKA in Warsaw, Poland. REGIONAL (ACTING): Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Taming of the Shrew (2009 Free for All), The Servant of Two Masters; Ford’s Theatre: Fly, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Full Circle; Studio Theatre: Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven; Company One: Astro Boy and the God of Comics; Synetic Theater: Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Lysistrata; National Symphony Orchestra: georgeWASHINGTON. FILM: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski. TEACHING: Georgetown University (Acting, Directing), Bronx Lighthouse College Prep Academy. EDUCATION: Georgetown University: BA in English, Theater and Performance Studies, NYU Tisch: MA in Performance Studies. PUBLICATIONS: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski (Georgetown University Press, 2021). UPCOMING: .406 Below, a new play about Ted Williams and the quest for immortality.

NEW YORK: Off Broadway: The Originalist. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Intelligence, Kleptocracy (world premiere), Smart People, The Originalist (world premiere), Junk; Baltimore Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets; Children’s Theatre Company: Snow White; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Venus in Fur, Sex with Strangers, Cincinnati King (world premiere), Mr. Joy Americus (world premiere); Cleveland Playhouse: Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood; Court Theatre/ Pasadena Playhouse: The Originalist; Everyman Theatre: Aubergine; Milwaukee Shakespeare: Cymbeline; The Kennedy Center: Dr. Wonderful; Unleashed!; Bud, Not Buddy; Jason Invisible; Barrio Grrrl! (all world premieres); Olney Theatre Center: The Amateurs, Colossal (world premiere), Our Town, The Diary of Anne Frank; Portland Center Stage: The Oregon Trail; Round House Theatre: The Lyons, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Young Robinhood, Oslo; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Two Trains Running; Signature Theatre: The Threepenny Opera, Cabaret, Really Really (world premiere), Xanadu, Midwestern Gothic (world premiere), Girlfriend, The Fix; Skylight Music Theatre: In the Heights; Studio Theatre: TempOdyssey; Syracuse Stage: Stupid F*cking Bird, Amadeus; Theater J: Race, The Odd Couple, Lost in Yonkers, Our Class, The New Jerusalem, Love Sick; The Wilma Theater: The Body of an American, The Convert, Mr. Burns, a PostElectric Play; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Fever/Dream (world premiere), A Bright New Boise, Stupid F*cking Bird (world premiere), Zombie: The American (world premiere), Marie Antoinette, Kiss, Women Laughing Alone with Salad (world premiere), Hir, An Octoroon, Fairview, Describe the Night, The Convert, Gruesome Playground Injuries. OPERA: Filarmónica de Jalisco: Turandot; Opera Lafayette/Opera Royal Versailles: Les femmes vengées, Cosi fan tutte. OTHER: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, The Red Torch Theatre, The Kommissarzhevskaya Theatre (Russia). AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award (2013), Gypsy Rose Lee Award (2018). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: professor, head of MFA in Design in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park; company member, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; associate artist, Olney Theatre Center. TRAINING: St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, Russia; MishaKachman.com

REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Intelligence, The Heiress, The Price, Right to Be Forgotten; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Two Trains Running; Ford’s Theatre: Jefferson’s Garden, Silent Sky; The Kennedy Center: Oliverio, A Wind in the Door; McCarter Theatre Center: Sleuth; Baltimore Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets, How to Catch Creation; Olney Theatre Center: Mary Stuart, South Pacific, Miss You Like Hell, Invisible Hand; Round House Theatre: A Boy and His Soul, Oslo, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; Everyman Theatre: Pipeline, Queens Girl, Aubergine; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, A Bright New Boise, Botticelli in the Fire, Describe the Night, The Arsonists, Fairview. Upcoming: Minor Character at The Wilma Theatre, The Mountaintop at Ford’s Theatre. TRAINING: University of Maryland: MFA in Design. IvaniaStack.com

INTERNATIONAL: Sofia National Opera House, Bulgaria: Shrek. NATIONAL TOUR: Crane: on earth, in sky (Heather Henson). NEW YORK: Carnegie Hall: Titus Burgess: Take Me to the World; Town Hall: Into the Woods: In Concert; Roundabout Theatre Company: Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Suicide Incorporated; Rattlestick Theatre: The Siblings Play; New World Stages: Would You Still Love Me If (dir. Kathleen Turner); Theater for a New City: Charles Busch’s Cleopatra; City Center: Wringer; Mint Theatre Company: Suitcase Under the Bed; St. Clements: Bulldozer, MUST; Davenport: Indian Joe; Jerry Orbach Theater: Crusade of Connor Stephens; Theatre Row: The Eternal Space; Actors’ Temple: Soul Doctor; 59E59 Theaters: The Good Girl; Abingdon: The Gentleman Caller, The Dork Knight; 4th Street Theatre: Sommerfugl, Holiday House (NYTW). REGIONAL: Djembe (Apollo Theatre), Pasadena Playhouse, Two River Theater, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Barrington Stage Company, Bucks County Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival, Cape Playhouse. TELEVISION: Wicked in Concert (PBS, dir. Baayork Lee). UPCOMING: National Tour of May We All (written by Florida Georgia Line); Instagram: @zachblane. ZachBlane.com

REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Voices of Now: Inside Voices, Snow Child, The Price, The Year of Magical Thinking, Mother Courage; Portland Center Stage: Crossing Mnisose; Round House Theatre: Small Mouth Sounds; A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences: Kid Prince and Pablo, The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Fairview, Describe the Night; Studio Theatre: Admissions, Curve of Departure; DISTANCE FREQUENCIES: Rorschach Theatre: [410]GONE; Spooky Action Theater: The Lathe of Heaven; Mosaic Theater Company: CHARM; Hooded, Or Being Black for Dummies; Ulysses On Bottles; Oh God!; Everyman Theatre: Aubergine, The Importance of Being Earnest; Olney Theatre Center: Singin’ in the Rain, Matilda the Musical, Tiger Style!, The Invisible Hand, On The Town, Aubergine, Annie, Thurgood, Fickle: A Fancy French Farce, Dial M for Murder; Constellation Theatre: AIDA; The Welders: In This Hope: A Pericles Project; Hello My Name Is…; GALA Hispanic Theatre: FAME!, In the Heights. TRAINING: The Catholic University of America: Master of Music in Stage Music Composition. Roc Lee is a Helen Hayes Award-winning D.C.-based composer/sound designer. He creates music and sound design for video games, theater, film, and podcasts. RocLee.net

NEW YORK: Heartbeat Opera (Associate Artist): Fidelio, La Susanna, Butterfly, Dido & Aeneas; Juilliard: Agrippina; Constellation Chor/Marisa Michaelson: Desire/Divinity Project, Sappho Fragments. REGIONAL: Theater J: Our Class; Round House Theatre: I’ll Get You Back Again (Associate), Young Robin Hood; Baltimore Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets; Opera Lafayette: Radamisto. FILM: Breathing Free. OTHER: International exchange: Theater Zar Poland, DaLiangShan International Theater Festival China, UTheater Taiwan. ARTIST RESIDENCIES: NYC: HERE Arts, BAX, Fresh Ground Pepper; San Francisco: ODC, Studio210. Artist Fellowships: DCCAH, Asian Cultural Council, Amherst College. TEACHING: IDEO, MoMA, Cornell Tech, University of Louisville, Georgetown University. Training: Kuttiyattam Sanskrit Theater (India), LaMama Director’s Symposium (Italy), Lecoq School for Physical Theater (France), performance from age 6 with mime father, Mark Jaster (Happenstance Theater). Jaster is a core member of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University and has been part of the Karski artistic team since 2015.

TOURS: Aladdin, Jersey Boys, Chicago, Wicked. NEW YORK: Broadway: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Cyrano de Bergerac, Wicked, Fosse, Les Misérables, Sly Fox, La Cage aux Folles. Off Broadway: A Night with Janis Joplin, In Transit, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Power Plays, All in the Timing, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.