Cynthia Goatley
A Scotch Verdict
CYNTHIA GOATLEY is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa where she directed productions and taught playwriting, acting, and directing. From The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Dr. Goatley received a Jones Commission award for her play Underbodies and an Honorable Mention for a Jerome Fellowship. Both her full-length play, A Sudden Loss of Altitude, and her ten-minute piece, Live Nativity Tech, have been produced at UNI. Dr. Goatley’s play about Attention Deficit Disorder, Catching Butterflies, was commissioned by Theatre Wybrzeże in Poland and has since been performed by Sturgis Youth Theatre in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and in Sacramento, California. Her musical in collaboration with Rebecca Burkhardt, A Scotch Verdict, received a concert performance at the Theatre Building Chicago and was workshopped in a professionally directed workshop at UNI. Her newest musical, Just Ann, is based on the life of Texas Governor Ann Richards and being revised for a New York reading. Professionally, Dr. Goatley has directed premieres and performed with theatre companies from Texas to Minnesota.