Lisa Goldman
Author of The No Rules Handbook,
Writer, Director & Script Consultant
The Red Room - 1995-2006
Lisa’s Artistic Directorship.
THE RED ROOM PRODUCTIONS, AWARDS AND INTERVENTIONS
This brilliant walkabout performance is rooted in the community and probes the very nature of community itself. The Guardian on Hoxton Story 2005 ****
2005 Hoxton Story by and dir. Lisa Goldman
Site-specific walkabout production, archive, booklet and website. (Video Here or View the Booklet HERE)
Snake Park by young people dir. Lisa Goldman
Community First Light video produced by Maysoon Pachachi
'Goldman’s Red Room company…once again confirms its reputation for both theatrical and political outspokenness… makes you want to take to the streets while you still can'
Financial Times on Animal 2003
2003/4 Animal by Kay Adshead dir. Lisa Goldman
Soho Theatre and national tour
Going Public curated by Lisa Goldman at the Tricycle Theatre
Involving over 40 companies and artists in a performed debate exploring theatre as a public form and practice.
"Neilson’ Stitching is the talking point of the fringe and one of the most exciting plays of the year. I left the theatre with my pulse, and my mind, racing.”
Time Out on Stitching 2002 Time Out Live Award 2003 Best off West End production
2002/3 Stitching by and dir. by Anthony Neilson
Co-pro with the Bush/Traverse/international tour included Schaubuhne and National theatre Slovenia
Winner- Best Off West End Production, Time Out Live Award
Winner- Best Actress Award, The Stage
Winner- Herald Angel Award
Nominee- Best Play Award, Evening Standard
2001 Set up Artists against the War
'…the audience was so moved, that for a while the applause was shocked into silence. Political theatre is alive again'
Evening Standard on the Bogus Woman 2000
2000/1 The Bogus Woman by Kay Adshead– dir. Lisa Goldman
The Traverse/Bush/international tour
Winner- Scotsman Fringe First Award
Winner- Best Actress Award, Manchester Evening News
Nominee- EMMA and Susan Smith Blackburn
2000 My Sky is Big 35mm short film
dir. Lisa Goldman
Played at National Film Theatre 1 and other festivals
1999 Leave to Remain by Leon London dir. Lisa Goldman
1998 Made in England by Parv Bancil dir. Lisa Goldman
Co-pro with Tabularasa 5 week London tour
'Lisa Goldman, said to have one of the best eyes for talent in the business'
(The Guardian – Ones to Watch 1998)
Seeing Red a three-part two month festival of dissent including Conspiracy. Residency BAC Studio 1 and café. 15 new short plays. Writers included Kay Adshead, Parv Bancil, Peter Barnes, Roddy McDevitt, Rebecca Pritchard, David Eldridge, Judy Upton, Rony Fraser-Munro, Dona Daly, Tony Craze. Writers were invited to respond to the 1st anniversary of a New Labour government and 30 years since 1968.
1997 Obsession by Rob Young dir. Lisa Goldman
BAC Critics Choice season
The Big Story Season – Red Room at the Finborough for 3 months
Winner - Guinness Ingenuity Award
Surfing by Rob Young dir. Lisa Goldman
Also BAC Critics Choice seasons and Assembly Rooms Edinburgh
The Censor by and dir. Anthony Neilson Winner- Best Fringe Play Award, Time Out
Winner- Best Fringe Play, Writers Guild Award
Also Duke of Yorks and New Ambassadors with the Royal Court
People on the River by Judy Upton dir. Lisa Goldman
Tuscon by Lisa Perotti dir. Janet Gordon
‘Not just the end of a play, but the end of an era’
Time Out on the Red Room leaving the Lion and Unicorn
1996 All below at the Red Room Theatre Above the Lion and Unicorn
Coming to Land Season
Winner - Guinness Ingenuity Award
White Unto Harvest by Mavis Howard dir. Lisa Goldman
Creamy by Leon London dir. Sarah Franckom
Sunspots by Judy Upton dir. Lisa Goldman
Also at BAC Critics Choice season
‘the venue is fast developing as one of the best on the fringe’
Whats On 1996
Bacillus by Kay Adshead dir. Orit Azaz
Stealing Souls by Judy Upton dir. Shabnam Shabazi
The Lottery Ticket by Roddy McDevitt dir. Yvonne McDevitt
The Body Trade by Deborah Lavin dir. Lisa Goldman
Liar Liar by Ned Cox dir. Lisa Goldman
1995 The Night before Christmas by and dir. Anthony Neilson
Shuttle by and dir. Joseph Crilly
The Shorewatchers’ House by Judy Upton dir.by Lisa Goldman
the Red Rooms first play