Julia Jordan
Julia Jordan is an award-winning American playwright, television and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College, class of 1989, and received a masters degree from Trinity, Dublin.[1]
Personal life
Jordan was born in Chicago and spent much of her early life in Minnesota. Later she would settle in New York City 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[2] for acting, she was inspired to begin writing for the stage.
Professional life
Several of Jordan's plays were staged during the late 1990s and early 2000s earning critical praise.[3] In 2000, her short film "The Hat", which she co-directed with Terry Stacey, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently ran on IFC in 2001-2002.[4][5] Her second short, which she wrote and famed 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.[6]
Due to her achievements in theater she was asked to participate in Barnard College's "Great Writers at Barnard" conference in 2006.
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"
Films
- The Hat (2000)
Television
- As The World Turns (Script Writer)
Awards
- The Francesca Primus Prize for Tatjana in Color[5]
- three times shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, one honorable mention
- Jonathan Larson Award
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