Leigh Goldenberg

Leigh Goldenberg is the Managing Director of Philadelphia’s Tony Award-winning Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. She’s proud to lead an organization that creates bold contemporary theater with a dedication to local artists. Prior to joining the company in March 2020, Leigh served as Executive Director of Theatre Philadelphia, the region’s theatre marketing and leadership organization where she started Philly Theatre Week and drove inclusion efforts at the Barrymore Awards program. 

Previously, she worked with Wash Cycle Laundry, a triple-bottom line laundry and linen service that delivers by bicycle and creates jobs for vulnerable adults. She has held marketing, production, and administrative roles at theaters in Philadelphia and New York City. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, she has taught theater management at her alma mater as well as University of the Arts and University of Pennsylvania.

Leigh is an alumni of the WP Producers Lab, Leadership Philadelphia’s Connectors and Keepers, Philly Girls Do Good, and was a Rad Girls nominee for Connector of the Year.

In her community, Leigh serves as a Democratic Committeeperson in the First Ward and as Vice Chair of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Leigh previously chaired Friends of Kirkbride Elementary, and was President of the South Philly Food Co-op which operates a community-owned grocery store. Her writing has been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Spoke Magazine, and (fun fact!) she was a contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid. She lives in South Philadelphia with her husband, daughter, and their garage full of bicycles.