From 1973-75, Goldberg served as casting director for the Lincoln Center Repertory Company, managed by the New York Shakespeare Festival under the direction of Papp. Among the plays she cast at Lincoln Center were David Rabe's In the Boom Boom Room starring Madeline Kahn and Charles Durning; The Tempest with Waterston and Carol Kane; Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth, both with Christopher Walken; and the prison drama Short Eyes by Miguel Pinero.