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Plane Girl at Manhattanville College
Upcoming - October 4th & 5th 2024
Plane Girl has been selected as the debut musical in Manhattanville College’s new 29 Hour Workshop Series for their BFA Musical Theatre Students.
Catch presentations of the work in progress October 4th & 5th 2024!
Plane Girl at NYTB Choreography Lab
Upcoming - April 17th, 2024
New York Theatre Barn will launch the 11th season of its Choreography Lab on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 at 7PM ET. Curated by Avital Asuleen, the program’s New Works Lab makes space for 3 choreographers to bring 3 original musicals to life on their feet, often for the first time. The featured musicals are: The Bridge – with book and lyrics by Jay Alan Zimmerman and music by Jackson Talley, Greenwood – with book, music, and lyrics by Ronvé O’Daniel, music and orchestrations by Jevares Myrick and book by J Kyle Manzay, and Plane Girl – with book, music and lyrics by Hayley Goldenberg, Canaan J. Harris, and Julia Sonya Koyfman.
Back to Broadway: The Music of Canaan J. Harris
February 25th, 2024
Join us at 54 Below as we head Back to Broadway with the music of Canaan J. Harris. This thrilling evening features a full slate of original songs, including numbers from his original musicals Boys, Boys, Behave!, Plane Girl, Elaine?!. With a multi-talented cast of friends, familiar faces, and Broadway’s best, get ready to leave humming brand-new classics that combine the sounds of contemporary and Golden Age musical theater.
Additional composition by Hayley Goldenberg, Julia Sonya Koyfman, and Alex Ngo.
54 Celebrates Hannukah
December 11th 2023
It’s an evening of music hotter than latkes!
Have you ever thought that there are simply not enough Hanukkah songs? Wonder no more! For the third exciting year, 54 Below will be showcasing some of the best Jewish musical theatre writers as they each present a brand new, original Hanukkah song. Join them along with some of Broadway’s biggest mensches as we give the festival of lights the songbook it deserves. You’ll want the miraculous, musical magic to last for eight days and beyond!
Spiral Bound
November 6th 2023
Hayley had the pleasure of assistant directing Emily Maltby on the Joe’s Pub Performance benefiting Maestra and Open Stage Project.
The song cycle, inspired by the poems of Richard Edelman, is a series of musical vignettes focused on love from the female perspective.
NAMT 35th Annual Festival of New Musicals
October 2023
Hayley along with collaborator Julia Sonya Koyfman are being showcased as featured lyricists at this year’s NAMT Festival in the Midday Cabarets!
The MIDDAY CABARETS give Festival attendees the chance to listen to short sets of new music in the relaxed Green Room Lounge. During the lunch break on both days, there will be two 20-minute Midday Cabarets, each featuring a different musical creator or team. This year’s Midday Cabaret writers include composers, lyricists and playwrights Ross Baum, Teresa Lotz, Hayley Goldenberg & Julia Sonya Koyfman, and Hope Villanueva & William Yanesh.
Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project
June 2023
Hayley was one of sixteen participants, selected from nearly 200 applicants from around the world, to take part in an intensive week-long program of master classes and workshops led by master teachers Stephen Bray, Craig Carnelia, Lindy Robbins and Autumn Rowe. This year's songwriters, hailing from five countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and Georgia, will participate in the program, which has been a catalyst to the careers of many artists who have gone on to win top honors in the field including Tony, Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy and Latin Grammy awards, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Jonathan Larson Award, and more.
Death of An Underling at Sound Bites X | Theatre Now
May 2023
Hayley will serve as associate director to Rachel Klein on Death of An Underling, A New Musical by Kit Goldstein Grant at SOUND BITES X, 10th Annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals. Now in its tenth year, the SOUND BITES Festival of 10-Minute Musicals is a fast-paced evening featuring a diverse lineup of stories and styles from emerging writers.
Women of the Wings Volume V
March 2023
The work of Geller, Koyfman, and Goldenberg to be featured in Women of The Wings Volume 5 - March 4, at 54 Below.
Women of The Wings is an evening of new work and classic favorites. You'll hear songs that make you laugh, songs that make you cry, and songs that make you think differently about the world around you... all created by women who have made their mark on musical theatre.
Women of The Wings Volume 5 plays 54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on Friday, March 4th at 9:30pm. There is a $25-$60 cover charge and $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.
The Baroque Cycle
November 2022
Hayley is thrilled to be directing “The Baroque Cycle” a new musical by Jonathon Lynch at New York Theater Festival.
NAMT Festival Observership
October 2022
Hayley joined the team of Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls at the 34th Annual Festival of New Musicals through the NAMT Festival Observership for Early Career Directors. Featuring an all-women+ cast and an original through-composed 1920-2020s mashup score, Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls tells the true story of the capitalist exploitation and knowing radium poisoning of workers by the U.S. Radium Corporation—and the women who fought back.
MuseMatch
May 15 2022 | Green Room 42
Composers and singers are paired on a "Musical Theater Blind Date" where they are asked to have authentic, honest, open and vulnerable conversations; sharing their deepest hopes and fears, culminating in an evening of entirely original music. With all proceeds benefitting ART IGNITES!
Chloe Geller, Hayley Goldenberg, and Julia Sonya Koyfman will premiere a new song they created for Emily Esposito.
Cabaret on the Couch
The acclaimed online series Cabaret on the Couch kicks off its 2022 programming with an evening of all-new music on Friday, February 25th at 8pm.
This month's show focuses on the inaugural class of the Musical Theater Writers Collective - a group of musical theater's next generation of composers. They've built "a program that balances a dedication to treating writers, directors, and performers as their own unique artists with a commitment to providing a solid framework in the history and present of musical theatre structure and style." Learn more about their mission and support their artists here.
Just Running Late
Thursday December 9th, 2021 at 6:30pm(ish)
Hayley’s work will be featured in a Cabaret of Original Songs at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. The evening, produced in conjunction with Telsey casting director Peter Dunn and hosted by Jake McKenna, will feature guest performances by Broadway veteran Julie Schmidt and New York performer/songwriter Taylor Pearlstein. Program director Sam Carner along with Derek Gregor and composition teacher Zina Goldrich (of Goldrich & Heisler) will also share original material.