Edward Golden
profgolden@yahoo.com
Professor Emeritus, Theater, Acting and Directing
B.A. Harvard University, M.F.A., Boston University, Ph.D., Tufts University

Ed Golden has had a long career in professional and university theater. During the last seven seasons at New Century Theatre, he has directed Kimberly Akimbo, Sight Unseen, The Weir, Art, Copenhagen, Lobby Hero and Stones In His Pockets. He also devised and directed Valley Lite, New Century*s contribution to the 2008 Paradise City Arts Festival. Ed was founder and first artistic director of Baltimore's regional theater Center Stage where he directed over twenty productions. Also in Baltimore, he was founder and first artistic director of Theater Hopkins where he directed more than twenty productions in five seasons. At home in the opera world as well, Ed has staged a wide range of pieces from Mozart to Douglas Moore. A professor
of performance (emeritus) and former co-chair of the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, he was director throughout his twenty-five year tenure of a long list of classic and
contemporary productions there and on other stages. Summers he served as artistic director of Theater-in *the- Works, a series of professional mountings of new plays many of which he also directed. His production of
The Playboy of the Western World was the national winner of the 1991 American College Theater Festival and played The Kennedy Center in the spring of that year. In 1999, he directed David Ives's Mere Mortals at
the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.