Michaela (Mickey) Goldhaber is a feminist playwright, director, and dramaturg based in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose works include The Lady Scribblers, The Rehab Follies, and What Does it Matter? A Morality adapted from the short story by E. M. Forster. She is co-founder of Access Classics and co-produced the award winning production of Electra.

In New York, she co-founded and served as Artistic Director for Flying Fig Theatre, a company whose mission was to tell women’s stories on stage by commissioning new works and rediscovering plays from the past. For Flying Fig, she directed The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret by Susanna Centlivre, Shiloh Rules by Doris Baizley, and The Gut Girls by Sarah Daniels, and developed and produced two world premieres by Ellen K. Anderson, Shirtwaist and New Amsterdames. Her mission continues to be telling women’s stories on stage, and as associate editor for Women Arts’ blog she works as an advocate for gender parity in theatre.

Her plays have had staged readings at Playwrights Foundation, Central Works Writers Workshop, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Butterfield 8 Theatre Company, The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, and Symmetry Theatre.

In San Francisco, she has directed for Boxcar Theatre, the Olympians Festival, the Playwrights’ Center, and the Center for Sex and Culture. She is the director of Wry Crips, a theatre company for women with disabilities in Berkeley, where she is guiding the process of creating a new ensemble play, a sci-fi comedy.

She has worked as a dramaturg and assistant director with the Geffen Playhouse, ACT, Central Works, Aurora Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep, California Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Rep, and Berkeley Rep.

Mickey is a stroke survivor, and wrote about her Post Stroke return to directing for Theatre Bay Area Magazine. http://www.theatrebayarea.org/news/news.asp?id=163632

A graduate of Tufts University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Mickey has an MFA in directing from UCLA.