Julia Jordan
JULIA JORDAN has four plays being produced in New York this season. They are St. Scarlet at Ontological directed by Chris Messina, Tatjana in Color at The Culture Project directed by Will Pomerantz, Summer of the Swans at The Lucille Lortel directed by Joe Calarco and Boy at Primary Stages in the spring. Boy received the Honorary Mention from the Susan Smith Blackburn Award committee. It was commissioned by South Coast Repertory and included in their Pacific Playwrights Festival 2002. Tatjana in Color was produced by Arthur Penn and the Actor’s Studio Free Theater 1998 and at the Contemporary American Play Festival in 1999. She was also the librettist working with Larry O’Keefe (composer) and Nell Benjamin (lyricist) on the one act musical The Mice which was produced as part of Harold Prince’s Three at The Prince Music Theater in Philidelphia 2000, as well as at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, 2001. She worked with the same team on a second musical, an adaptation of Sarah Plain and Tall that ran at the Lucille Lortel in 2002. Her short film The Hat, which she wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance in 2000, and is currently showing on IFC. She was a playwriting fellow at Juilliard from 1995-1997 and at Manhattan Theater Club from 1999-2000. She received her Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. She is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatist’s Guild. Bio as of November, 2003. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) New Plays and Playwrights - January, 2004 - Watch now. American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient - 2002 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)