Ed Golden

Ed Golden, Professor Emeritus of performance, American and Irish theater at U.Mass/Amherst, has won many awards, most notably for outstanding teaching. He has directed more than one hundred professional and university productions, including The Playboy of the Western World in 1991, which won an award as the best national college production and played at the Kennedy Center. He founded Center Stage in Baltimore and served as its first artistic and principal director. Ed also directed several plays of Eugene O’Neill, and acted in O’Neill plays at the famed Provincetown Playhouse for two seasons.