Daniel Goldstein

Daniel Goldstein is the recipient of the 2016 Kleban Prize for most promising musical theater librettist. He was the recipient of an inaugural Calderwood Commission from the Huntington Theatre Company, for which he wrote an original musical with Michael Friedman entitled UNKNOWN SOLDIER, which was developed at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and Manhattan Theatre Club, and had its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of a New York Voices commission from The Public Theater, with singer/songwriter Dawn Landes. For New York Voices they wrote a musical called ROW, adapted from “A Pearl in the Storm,” the memoir of Tori Murden McClure, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. He is also the author of THE SONG OF SONGS, an adaptation of the Sholom Aleichem novella, and WINTER BIRDS, an adaptation of the Jim Grimsley novel. He was offered a commission from Roundabout Theatre Company for the play ORANGE CRUSH about Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter for Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal.”