(28 February 1906 – 22 March 1974), was an English set and costume designer and stage manager, known for his work with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
[1] As a young man, he was taken on by the local repertory theatre in Plymouth as a designer, going on to Dartington Hall from 1931 to 1934 where he took over responsibility for staging, costumes and lighting of the Dance-Drama Group.
[1] In 1936, Goffin went to the Westminster Theatre in London, working with Harley Granville Barker and Michael MacOwan on a range of productions, from classics such as Volpone, Uncle Vanya and Troilus and Cressida, to modern works including Mourning Becomes Electra, Heartbreak House, and T. S. Eliot's The Family Reunion.
She introduced him to her father, Rupert, who commissioned Goffin to redesign the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's production of The Yeomen of the Guard in 1938.
Martyn Green, the reigning principal comedian, was far from happy with his new costume, and he implied in his memoirs that it was one of the reasons why he later left the company.