About Peter Goldfarb

Peter Goldfarb has been active as an international producer, director, and actor in theatre, television and film for over 40 years. After beginning his career producing and directing in the New York Theatre, he was engaged by NBC as a Network Program Executive with a special mandate to create quality programming on a continuing basis. The result was the acclaimed NBC Experiment In Television series for which he produced and/or directed over thirty network films, specials and original dramas. During his tenure there, he was instrumental in the creation of the Movie of the Week and Docudrama formats. In recognition of his innovative programming, he was awarded: First Prize at the Chicago Film Festival; the George F. Peabody Award and several Emmy nominations, including one for his production of Federico Fellini's first made-for-TV film, Fellini - A Director's Notebook (on Criterion DVD). He then became Chief Production Consultant for a major film-financing consortium associated with such productions as Escape From New York, Superman II and Superman III. He also authored the screenplay for Ettore Scola's film Rocco Papaleo starring Marcello Mastroianni and Lauren Hutton.

In 1984, Mr. Goldfarb traveled to the Peoples Republic of China where he became the first American to negotiate and conclude an agreement between China and the United States for the production of a major motion picture, A World Full Of Dragons. In 1986, he produced, from the Soviet Union, 
Moscow /New York Live a four-hour live satellite broadcast with an all-star cast. In 1990, by special permission of the authors, he produced and directed the World Premiere of the newly revised version of the renowned rock musical Hair. He then produced and directed for television the 100th anniversary production of the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana, currently in distribution throughout the world on VAI DVD. The success of this production, together with Mr. Goldfarb's longtime passion for and encyclopedic knowledge of opera, has resulted in additional projects for opera on video, a field in which he is considered a pioneer.

Concurrent with his commercial work, Mr. Goldfarb has had a long-standing dedication to the education of young professionals and is much in demand as a teacher, lecturer, panelist and seminar leader. He has taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles and, in New York, at the Actors Studio, the Actors Process, and the Young Filmmakers Foundation. He is a founding faculty member and former Trustee of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where he developed an MFA Theatre Program based on the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris.  He has both taught and directed at the National Theatre Conservatory of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Theatre School at New York's Circle In The Square. Mr. Goldfarb has been a visiting faculty member at the Playwrights Horizon Theatre School and at the Summer Institute of the National Theatre of the Deaf. He is on the Executive Committee of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and is a Vice President of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute Training and Education Committee for which he travels the globe teaching and advising schools, theatres, and aspiring actors.  He has led workshops in London, Paris, Milan, Rome, Bucharest, Sibiu, Bratislava, Havana, Puebla, Medellin, Manila and Kathmandu.  In the summer of 2000 he helped found the International Shakespeare Summer Academy in Scarborough, England where he directed "Macbeth Moments" which subsequently played at the Edinburgh Festival.

Fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, he has served on the jury of many international film festivals and was Chairman of the Jury of the Chicago Film Festival. For his non-commercial work, he has been awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques of France.

As an actor Mr. Goldfarb appeared in the Los Angeles revival of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser at the Odyssey Theatre for which he received a Best Actor and Best Production Award from Drama-Logue. He subsequently appeared in Jon Marans' Pulitzer Prize nominated Old Wicked Songs at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, for which he received a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor. He also starred as Tevye in the Clarence Brown Theatre production of Fiddler On The Roof and performed in Dostoyevski's The Idiot, the inaugural production of the Manhattan Ensemble Theatre in New York. Then, in Europe, he created and directed The Voyage Project (www.thevoyageproject.com) in which a company of actors from countries including Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Poland, Israel and the US, address the personal and collective upheavals and life-changing events in their respective homelands. The Voyage Project has thus far been performed at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Mittelfest, the Spoleto Festival, Italy and the Theatre of Nations Festival in Manila. Among Mr. Goldfarb’s current projects are: a multi-media stage adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead with a score by Philip Glass; “Love’s Glory”, a production in the U.S. and Turkey written, directed and performed by him based on the life and work of the world renowned Sufi poet, Rumi; the direction of a modern Italian adaptation of Aeschylus’ “The Eumenides”; the creation in Mexico City of an ensemble theatre piece based on dreams; the performance of a leading role in “The Awakening of Angel de Luna”, a new American musical and the starring roles in two new American Dramas, “ Fritz”, about the creator of Gestalt Therapy and “His Greatness”, about the last days of the great American playwright, Tennessee Williams.

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