Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies.

Dr. Goldman is the Founding Artistic Director of the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, an award-winning socially and politically engaged professional theatre that produces new adaptations of literature for the stage, re-imagined classics, and ensemble-devised performance.  In addition to leading the company for 13 years, he has directed Off-Broadway and worked regularly as a director and adapter/playwright with regional theatres such as Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

He is the author of more than 20 professionally produced plays and adaptations, including work published by Samuel French, and he has directed over 50 productions.  His work has been honored with Joseph Jefferson Awards, Triangle Theatre Awards, and Spectator Awards, among others.  He has also won national recognition as a published scholar on topics such as the politics of adaptation and performance ethnography.

Areas of teaching include courses in directing, adaptation, acting, political theatre, film studies and performance theory.