Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman is a writer, dramaturg and director. Her NT Connections play Cable Street is now in development with BFI as a feature film. Other plays include Remedy (Attachment National Studio 2022) and Hoxton Story (2005). Her first short story 'Easy Peelers' was published last year in Mainstream anthology (2021). Her children's novel was shortlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020. Lisa is author of The No Rules Handbook for Writers (Bloomsbury) and runs a script consultancy. The plays she has...See more

Lisa Goldman is a writer, dramaturg and director. Her NT Connections play Cable Street is now in development with BFI as a feature film. Other plays include Remedy (Attachment National Studio 2022) and Hoxton Story (2005). Her first short story 'Easy Peelers' was published last year in Mainstream anthology (2021). Her children's novel was shortlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020. Lisa is author of The No Rules Handbook for Writers (Bloomsbury) and runs a script consultancy. The plays she has developed have won or been listed for every UK playwriting award. Lisa has worked in seventeen countries (including Iran, Turkey and Brazil). She has designed and taught MA modules in writing and dramaturgy at Essex University; RADA; City, University of London and UAL. Lisa was Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive of the Red Room (1995-2006) and Soho Theatre (2006-10). In 1995 she created the theatre for new work above the Lion and Unicorn. She has developed and directed dozens of acclaimed UK premieres including at Soho Theatre: Baghdad Wedding (also BBC Radio 3 Sunday play); Piranha Heights; Leaves of Glass; Shraddha; This Isn't Romance (also BBC Radio 3 The Wire); P oor Polish Speaking Romanians (co-translated with Paul Sirett); Everything Must Go; Playing Fields . At Live Theatre: Inheritance . At Bush and Traverse and international tour: The Bogus Woman (also BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play); Bites; Stitching (Producer). At Coventry Belgrade: Behud ; At BAC: Made in England; Sunspots; Obsession; Surfing; Ex; Seeing Red . At Theatre Royal Stratford East: Dangerous Lady . See less