Daniel Goldfarb

Daniel Goldfarb is a television writer/producer, screenwriter, playwright, librettist, and educator. He is the creator of HBO Max’s Julia, starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce as Julia and Paul Child.  His other television work includes three seasons as a writer/producer on Amazon’s Emmy winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as AppleTV’s Little Voice, F/X’s Tyrant, Audience Channel’s Rogue, CBC’s Four in the Morning, and PBS’s The Electric Company.  His film work includes the screenplay for the upcoming adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for producer Scott Sanders and director Jon Chu at Amazon. Daniel’s most recent play, Men’s Health, was released on Audible starring Tony Shalhoub.  His other plays include Legacy (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cradle and All (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons); Modern Orthodox (Dodger Stages); Sarah, Sarah (Manhattan Theatre Club); and Adam Baum and The Jew Movie (Blue Light Theatre Company). His musicals include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Broadway); Piece of My Heart (Signature Theatre); Radio Girl (Goodspeed); and Party Come Here (Williamstown Theatre Festival). He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards, three Writer’s Guild Awards (winning once), and a Producer’s Guild Award.  He has also won an Oppenheimer Award for best NY debut, a Canadian Author’s Association Award for best play, and was a finalist for the Dramatist’s Guild Hull Warriner Award.  He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing at Tisch (BFA, MFA), where he is an Associate Arts Professor and was Area Head of Playwriting from 2013-2017. He proudly serves on the Council of The Dramatist’s Guild.