Go Down, Moses
gO down, moses
by Dana Leslie Goldstein
Ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker already have a long history: marching side by side for civil rights, registering voters together during freedom summer, and maintaining a friendship that crosses the boundaries of race, religion and country of birth. Now in late middle age, they work at a small, liberal university, where part of the job is training a new crop of activists. But when a star student from the South Bronx – Angela Carter - crosses the administration and invites a controversial speaker to campus, free speech becomes a battle cry, and those who fought together to end injustice suddenly find themselves on opposing sides.
Playwright Dana Leslie Goldstein
“This is a riveting play with unexpected turns and central relationships that present a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the connection between Jews and African-Americans, both in the 1980s, when the play is set, and today. The play captures a moment of great transition in the ongoing relationship between two important American communities.”
Development:
2019 Naked Angels
2019 Workshop Theater
2020 Clamour Theatre Company
2021 Brave New World Repertory Theatre
2021 Players Club of Swarthmore
JPP Development:
2021 Jewish Playwriting Contest
Dana Leslie Goldstein is an award-winning playwright/lyricist whose work has been seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, Cherry Lane, Culture Project, Women’s Project, York, Theatre80, New Dramatists, BMI, The Barrow Group, Acorn, Lark, Beckett Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, Torn Page, Clamour Theatre (FL), Pacific Theatre (Vancouver), TischAsia (Singapore), NYMF, on Ellis and Liberty Islands, at the U.N. and more. She is a librettist at BMI and a playwright member of The Workshop Theater. Agent: Michael Moore, Michael@michaelmooreagency.com Website: www.danalesliegoldstein.com
