Julia Jordan is an American
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
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, television writer, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of
Barnard College, class of 1989, and received a master's degree from
Trinity College Dublin
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Biography
Jordan was born in
Chicago
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and spent much of her early life in
Minnesota
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. Later, she would settle in
New York City
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to pursue a life as a painter. However, this did not come to fruition. Upon graduating college, she briefly worked as a
CNN copywriter. While attending Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater for acting, she was inspired to begin writing for the stage.
Several of Jordan's plays were staged during the late 1990s and early 2000s earning critical praise. In 2000, her short film "The Hat", which she co-directed with
Terry Stacey, debuted at the
Sundance Film Festival
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and subsequently ran on
IFC in 2001–2002.
Her second short, which she wrote and photographer
Glen Luchford directed, won "Best Short Film" at the
Jackson Hole Film Festival in 2008.
She is a Lortel Fellow, Juilliard Playwright Fellow, Manhattan Theater Club Fellow, Member of the
Dramatists Guild of America Council and New Dramatists. Jordan is represented by The Gersh Agency.
Due to her achievements in theater, she was asked to participate in Barnard College's "Great Writers at Barnard" conference in 2006.
Jordan is a founder and the executive director of The Lillys, created in 2010 to honor female playwrights and address the shortage of plays by women that get produced in the United States.
Plays
*''MPLS, St Paul''
*''St Paul'' (1999)
*''Nightswim'' (2002)
*''St. Scarlet'' (2003)
*''Summer Of The Swans'' (2003)
*''Boy'' (2004)
*''Tatjana in Color'' (2004)
*''Dark Yellow'' (2006)
*''Walk Two Moons''
*''
Murder Ballad''
Filmography
Films
* 2000 ''The Hat''
Television
*''As The World Turns'' (script writer)
Awards
*The Francesca Primus Prize for Tatjana in Color
*three times shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, one honorable mention
*Jonathan Larson Award
References
External links
Timeout Chicago
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American soap opera writers
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Barnard College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women dramatists and playwrights
Women soap opera writers
21st-century American women writers
American women screenwriters
Writers from Chicago
Screenwriters from Illinois
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American women writers