HAYLEY GOLDENBERG

musical theatre writer & director

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, the 2024 MTEA New Works Collaboration Catalogue, and as the inaugural new musical in the new works development program at Manhattanville College. Other Accolades Include: 35th Annual NAMT Festival of New Musicals (Featured Lyricist) 2023 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project (Selected Participant), 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

FAYE

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PLANE GIRL

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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

Hayley working at the 2023 NAMT Festival

**Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project** Cohort & Faculty 2023

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

**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

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

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

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

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

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