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JULIE WEINBERG is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City. Julie’s full-length plays include Bad Daughter, Face it, and Circle Game. Among her short plays are Buttercup’s Lament, The Eleven O’clock Number, The Teller’s Tale, Free Association and Fault. Julie’s work has been produced and/or developed by The Open Eye Theater, The Quarantine Series, The Actors Studio Festival of New Plays, The Workshop Theater, ATHE, The Warner Theater Festival, Singapore Short & Sweet, Brooklyn’s Gallery Players, The Berrie Center, NJCU/Jersey City and Spokane’s KYRS Radio.
Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting, Bad Daughter was recently read on Zoom as part of Create Theater’s Series and featured Mary Testa and Frank Wood with direction by Shelley Butler (recording available on request). Julie’s short pandemic comedy, Buttercup’s Lament, has been in two recent reading series - part of the Quarantine Series/Dallas and in Open Eye Theater’s short play series. Her comedy Is It Cold in Here? was the 2019 short play winner of the Bridge Initiative's Bechdel Test 2.0 and will be published by Applause Books in 2021 along with monologues to be included in the Applause Honor Roll monologue collections. Pet Peeves, her evening of short plays about cats, dogs and their humans was part of the Workshop Theater’s reading series in 2019. Her play, You're Not the Type, was part of the Five by Ferber Festival at New Jersey Repertory in 2018 and published by Smith & Kraus. In both 2014 and 2015 she was a Kennedy Center ACTF finalist for her one act plays, The Eleven O’Clock Number and Fault.
For the screen, Julie wrote Me and Tess, featured as part of Harvardwood’s Pilot Season Survival Guide. She is a co-writer of Deserter, a feature film directed by Martin Huberty and starring Tom Hardy and plans to adapt her play, Bad Daughter as a screenplay. She will teach a workshop this fall for NJCU in dramaturgy. Before becoming a playwright, Julie performed as an actress and singer in New York and around the country. She is a graduate of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Writing for Stage and Screen, was a Guest Artist at the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. “Never give up – never surrender” from the cult classic, Galaxy Quest, has been Julie’s motto for many years.