Ed Golden

Ed Golden, Professor Emeritus of performance, American and Irish theater at UMass/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. In 2018, several former students prominent in theater, film and TV funded two theater scholarships in Ed’s name. He founded Center Stage and Theater Hopkins in Baltimore and served as their artistic and principal directors. Ed also directed several plays of Eugene O’Neill, and acted in O’Neill plays at the famed Provincetown Playhouse for two seasons. Ed has an A.B. from Harvard University, an MFA from Boston University, and a Ph.D. from Tufts University.