Julia Jordan is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College, class of 1989, and received a master's degree from Trinity College Dublin.[1]
Biography
editJordan 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.
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 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.
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.[7]
Plays
edit- 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
editFilms
edit- 2000 The Hat
Television
edit- As The World Turns (script writer)
Awards
edit- The Francesca Primus Prize for Tatjana in Color[5]
- three times shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, one honorable mention
- Jonathan Larson Award
References
edit- ^ "Alumni Playwrights | New Dramatists". newdramatists.org. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.
- ^ "Juilliard Alumni News". Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.
- ^ "Playbill News, First of Four Julia Jordan Plays This Season, St. Scarlet, Begins in NYC, June 10-July 5, by Ernio Hernandez". Archived from the original on April 11, 2008. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.
- ^ Icelandic Film Corporation[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Barnard College, Great Writers at Barnard". Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.
- ^ "doollee.com - the playwrights database of modern plays". www.doollee.com. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.
- ^ Leland, John (Oct 26, 2018). "How Julia Jordan, Champion of Female Playwrights, Spends Her Sundays". The New York Times. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.