Moses Goldberg

Moses Goldberg retired after twenty-five years as Producing Director of Stage One: The Louisville Children’s Theatre and is now working as a freelance director, teacher, and playwright. He also served as Artistic Director of the Asolo Touring Theatre (Sarasota, FL) and PAF Youth Theatre Center (Huntington, NY), and directed professionally at theatres from Washington to Florida, including – in 1988 – one of the first US/Soviet exchanges at Moscow’s famed Taganka Theatre. As a playwright, over twenty-five of his plays have been produced professionally, and sixteen of them have been published. His book of essays TYA: Essays on Theatre for Young Audiences was published in 2006, and his 1974 textbook, Children’s Theatre: A Philosophy and a Method, has been used in many of the nation’s colleges and universities. He has received the 1990 Charlotte B. Chorpenning Cup, in 2002 was honored with the Governor’s Artist Award for the state of Kentucky, and the 2005 Medallion of the Children’s Theatre Foundation. He was a Trustee of that Foundation for many years and served as its Treasurer from 2014-2024. He has taught at Florida State University and Southwest Texas State University as well as serving as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville, McDaniel College, and the University of North Carolina – Greensboro.