Mildred Goldberg was for a brief time a member of the Progressive Arts Club, and participated in the Workers’ Theatre and the journal Masses. Her contribution to the play, the mass recitation of Act IV, was the best-received sequence, and she later published it under her own name in Masses. She also wrote an article in Masses on “how to form a dramatic group.” She appeared in Eight Men Speak as the sobsister in Act II. She left the Progressive Arts Club after Eight Men Speak.