BSR_S04E09 - BABEL, Jacqueline Goldfinger

Today on the podcast, Jacqueline Goldfinger stops by to talk about her production, “Babel”, on stage at Theatre Exile and tour the country as a commissioned piece from the National New Play Network. We also talk about her playwright it development offering, “Page By Page”. Here’s my interview with Jacqueline Goldfinger.

A talking stork, lesbian moms, and the power to build your own baby.

In this version of a near future society, prospective parents learn within the first weeks of conception which traits their child will have and what behaviors it is likely to exhibit. With rapid advances in reproductive technology today, modern eugenics is science’s Wild West.

BABEL is produced at Theatre Exile as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.  Other partnering theaters are Unicorn Theatre (Missouri), Contemporary American Theater Festival (West Virginia), Passage Theatre Company (New Jersey), and Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL). For more information please visit www.nnpn.org.

BABEL was commissioned by National New Play Network with funding from The Smith Prize for Political Theater.

FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION: http://theatreexile.org