24 Facts About Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman is a British theatre director, dramaturg, writer and author.

Lisa Goldman was Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive of Soho Theatre and The Red Room Theatre Company which she founded.

In 2008 Lisa was included in the London Evening Standard's 'Influentials' list as one of the 1000 most influential people in London.

Lisa Goldman was born on November 1964 and grew up in Walthamstow and Chingford, east London, where she attended local state schools.

Lisa Goldman went on to gain a first class BA Hons in Drama and English from Loughborough University, a postgraduate diploma in Directing from Drama Studio London and an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, London.

Lisa Goldman's final project was a physical ecofeminist piece called Mute inspired by Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin.

Lisa Goldman's graduating project from drama school in 1988 was the British premiere of Heiner Muller's poetic trilogy, Despoiled Shore, Medeamaterial and Landscape with Argonauts.

Elsewhere Lisa Goldman ran playwriting workshops in schools and directed young people's plays including for Travelling Light and Inner City Theatre Company.

For WTM Lisa Goldman directed a revival of Waiting for Lefty at the Old Red Lion in 1990 with Ed Bishop in the lead role.

Lisa Goldman directed the Bobby Sands Trilogy in 1991 at the Tramway, Glasgow, performed by Tam Dean Burn, despite calls for the 'IRA play' to be banned.

In 1991, during the first Gulf War, whilst running a non-stop picket outside the American Embassy, Tam and Lisa Goldman set up Artists against the War, working with a diverse group of artists to create art action on the streets against the war.

In 1994 Lisa Goldman found a derelict room above what is The Lion and Unicorn pub in Gaisford Street, Kentish Town and persuaded the new owner to let her create a theatre there.

Lisa Goldman was joined by administrators Catherine Thornborrow and Emma Schad.

In 2003, on the eve of war in Iraq, Lisa Goldman curated Going Public at the Tricycle Theatre, a day-long event involving a diverse range of 30 theatre companies in a performed debate about theatre's role as a public form.

The last play Lisa Goldman directed for the Red Room was Hoxton Story in 2005 which she wrote, based on the oral history archive she created through 40 hours of interviews with people living on the housing estates in the area.

In 2006, Lisa Goldman took over as Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive of Soho Theatre Company.

Lisa Goldman introduced a strong intercultural programme, for which the company was shortlisted for a Peter Brook Empty Space Award.

In 2009 Lisa Goldman was included in the Evening Standard's 'Influentials' list as one of the 1000 most influential people in London.

Lisa Goldman made the first London invitation to Belarus Free Theatre with their productions Being Harold Pinter and Generation Blue Jeans.

Lisa Goldman's produced full-length plays include Hoxton Story, Discover my Dream ; The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick ; Flying Colours ; On the Bridge.

Lisa Goldman co-translated with Paul Sirett A Couple of Poor Polish Speaking Romanians by Dorota Maslowska which she directed for Soho Theatre Company.

Lisa Goldman has worked internationally as a facilitator, producer and researcher including in Brazil, Iran, Turkey, Japan, Norway, South Korea, US, Sweden, Finland, France, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Ireland.

Lisa Goldman has taught widely and recently led MA courses at RADA, City University, Essex University and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Lisa Goldman is a trained coach and facilitator of action learning.