Hayley Goldenberg

Biography

Hayley Goldenberg (she/her) is a NYC-based, Toronto raised, Vancouver-trained and Santa Barbara-born queer feminist theatre creator. As a songwriter, her work has been presented on stages across Canada and the United States including The Greenroom 42, Laurie Beechman Theatre, and the Penny Zlotnik Studio Theatre. Hayley has had her work produced by several organizations and institutions including New Music Theatre Intensives, Cabaret on the Couch, Capilano University, Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts, and the Musical Theatre Writers Collective.

In 2021, Hayley was a selected finalist for the New Bad Ideas Program through Bad Hats Theatre in Toronto and in 2022, Hayley, along with collaborators Julia Sonya Koyfman and Chloe Geller, were semi-finalists for the Bechdel Project: "Room of One's Own" Residency with their new musical FAYE: A Musical Inspired By The Life And Photographs Of Faye Lazebnik Schulman. Hayley is the co-founder (along with Amy Andrews) of WOMEN & THEATRE a blog dedicated to exploring what it means to be a woman in the theatre industry.

She is an alumni of the Capilano University musical theatre program in North Vancouver, The Performing Arts Project Summer Intensive, and the NMTI Writer's Workshop, and is currently studying her craft with The Musical Theatre Writers Collective.