Julia Childs

{{short description|British playwright}}

{{for|the American chef|Julia Child}}

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{{one source|date=July 2015}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Julia Childs

| image =

| birth_name = Julia Kay Childs

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1962|03|6|df=y}}

| birth_place = St Albans, United Kingdom

| occupation = Playwright, director

| language = English

| nationality = British

| genre = Theatre

| period = 2007–present

| awards = Winner African performance 2009, Joint-second place African performance 2010

}}

Julia Childs (born 1962 in St Albans) is a British playwright who has won first and second-place awards internationally.

Her debut play Home Sweet Soweto Home won first prize in the BBC African Performance competition. Professor Wole Soyinka awarded Childs joint-second place in African Performance 2010 with The Coffin Factory.

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/07/100708_african_performance_2010_the_winners.shtml BBC: African Performance 2010 winners] Both plays were produced by BBC and broadcast on the BBC World Service.