Michael John McGoldrick's play “Wolf and Badger” was produced by the Main Street Players in Miami, FL, in the summer of 2021. His play "Allies" was selected for the 2020 Spring Residency at The New Jersey Play Lab; it also received a residency from the Paterson Performing Arts Development Council in 2022. His play "The Moment After" was a Finalist in City Theatre’s National Award for Short Playwriting Contest in 2019. This same play was also a National Finalist in the Gary Garrison MFA Ten-Minute Play Competition sponsored by KCACTF in April 2018 and was also selected for the Theater Masters National Playwriting Festival in 2018. McGoldrick’s play "The New Pasteur" was awarded “Best Overall Play” in Acadia University’s 26th Annual MiniFest. His play "Children of Philadelphia" was a finalist in the 2015 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition sponsored by the Alleyway Theater in Buffalo. His play "By the Shores of Alluvtoomey" was a finalist in Playhouse on the Square’s NewWorks@TheWorks 2nd Annual Playwriting Competition. His 10-minute play "The Chinese Life Force" was a People’s Choice Winner (Black Show) in the 12th Annual InspiraTO Festival in Toronto, Canada. His other plays have received staged readings from The Depot, Clamour Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory Company, Questors’ Theatre (London), Up Theater, Sundog Theater, The Jersey City Theater Center, Permafrost Theater Collective and The Theater Project. He is a member of the American Renaissance Theater Company in Manhattan. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from Arizona State University in May 2018.