Overview
Scripts, notebooks, and correspondence of American poet and playwright, Sidney Goldfarb.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1979-2000
Creator
- Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942- (Person)
Condition Description
In good condition
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
5 linear feet (7 boxes)Collection contains drafts of all of Sidney Goldfarb's plays and those screenplays he wrote with and for Julie Taymor, with related correspondence and agreements; videotapes and CDs of performances of his plays; and approximately 70 notebooks that served as journals and include notes and scripts of plays, poems, and other writing.
Biographical / Historical
Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942 in Peabody, Massachusetts) was a Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright whose work continued the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He was the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1968), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1970), a Goethe Foundation Grant (1984), and multiple grants from the New York State Council on the Arts. Most of Goldfarb's plays were performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York (N.Y.).
Arrangement
Arranged as received.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2023MT-2. Gift of the Estate of Sidney Goldfarb, 2023 August.
Processing Information
This collection was processed to a basic level with minimal rehousing, organization, and preservation. (Melanie Wisner, 2023)
Creator
- Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942- (Person)
- Taymor, Julie, 1952- (Person)
Subject
- La Mama Experimental Theatre Club (Organization)
- Title
- Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942-. Sidney Goldfarb papers, circa 1979-2000 (MS Thr 2292): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2023 August 9
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03587
Repository Details
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