 Professor of EnglishOffice: Denison 233 Telephone: 303-492-5275 E-mail: Sidney.Goldfarb@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Creative writing (poetry, plays, screenplays); modern and contemporary literature
Education
B.A., Harvard University, 1965
Publications
Books
Curve in the Road. Halty-Ferguson, 1980 (poems)
Messages. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1971 (poems)
Speech, for Instance. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969 (poems)
Productions of Plays
The Rushes of Tulsa. Staged reading directed by Sidney Goldfarb. Dixon Place at Cherry Lane Theater, 2004
Bad Women. Directed by Tina Shepherd, Women's Interart Center, New York, 2000
The Rushes of Tulsa (part one). Directed by Roger Babb, Dance Theater Workshop and Dixon Place, 1999 (Showcase Productions)
Music Rescue Service, a musical. Directed by Roger Babb, Theater for the New City, New York, 1991
The Orange Grove, directed by Roger Babb, Performing Space 122, New York, 1988; and Downtown/Uptown Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, 1990
The Transposed Heads, a musical. Directed by Julie Taymor, music by Eliot Goldenthal, American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia and The Mitzi Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, 1988
Big Mouth. Directed by Tina Shepherd, La Mama, New York, 1985
The Transposed Heads, adapted from the novel by Thomas Mann. Directed by Julie Taymor, Ark Theater, New York, 1984
Pedro Paramo, adapted from the novel by Juan Rulfo. Directed by Paul Zimet, The Theater for the New City, New York, 1979. Revised version, directed by Michael Griggs, Back Door Theater, Portland, Oregon, 1999
Hot Lunch Apostles. Directed by Paul Zimet, La Mama, New York, 1983.
Pedro Paramo and Hot Lunch Apostles (new versions), in repertory, directed by Paul Zimet, La Mama, 1984
Tristan: A Retelling. Directed by Paul Zimet, La Mama, New York and The Roundhouse, London, 1983
Huerfano, based on oral histories gathered in Huerfano County, CO. Directed by Elaine Baker in 20 Colorado communities, 1980
Screenplays
The Flying Dutchman, story by Julie Taymor. 20th Century Fox, 2003
With Julie Taymor, The Transposed Heads. Optioned by Ms. Taymor, represented by ICM, 1997
With Julie Taymor, Juan Darien, from the story by Quiroga and the play by Julie Taymor. Commissioned by American Playhouse, 1993
Selected honors and awards
New York State Council on the Arts Commissioning Grant, 1999
New York State Council on the Arts Grant for workshop performance, 1998
New York State Council on the Arts Grants in Playwriting, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990
Faculty Fellowships, CU Boulder, 1986-87, 1994-95
Goethe Foundation Grant for The Transposed Heads, 1984
National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Poetry, 1970
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1968
Current projects
Collected Plays in progress for Station Hill Press
The Final Hour (play)
The Oracle of Delphi, Colorado (play)
Bad Women, revised version (play)
The Transposed Heads, revised musical version (screenplay)