Julia Jordan
{{Short description|American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://newdramatists.org/who/alumni|title=Alumni Playwrights | New Dramatists|website=newdramatists.org|accessdate=Oct 15, 2019|archive-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330195348/https://newdramatists.org/who/alumni|url-status=dead}}
Biography
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{{Cite web|url=http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/aspot_0405.html|title=Juilliard Alumni News|accessdate=Oct 15, 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/79119.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411145430/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/79119.html|url-status=dead|title=Playbill News, First of Four Julia Jordan Plays This Season, St. Scarlet, Begins in NYC, June 10-July 5, by Ernio Hernandez|archivedate=April 11, 2008|accessdate=Oct 15, 2019}} 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.[http://www.icecorp.is/web/Acquisitions/Pure?ArticleID=175 Icelandic Film Corporation]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.barnard.edu/writers/bios_conference.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907112634/http://www.barnard.edu/writers/bios_conference.html|url-status=dead|title=Barnard College, Great Writers at Barnard|archivedate=September 7, 2008|accessdate=Oct 15, 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/index.php?login=login|title=doollee.com - the playwrights database of modern plays|website=www.doollee.com|accessdate=Oct 15, 2019}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/nyregion/how-julia-jordan-champion-of-female-playwrights-spends-her-sundays.html|title=How Julia Jordan, Champion of Female Playwrights, Spends Her Sundays|first=John|last=Leland|work=The New York Times |date=Oct 26, 2018|accessdate=Oct 15, 2019|via=NYTimes.com}}
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
Filmography
=Films=
- 2000 The Hat
=Television=
- As The World Turns (script writer)
Awards
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080306194538/http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/theater/25727/crossover-jordan Timeout Chicago]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307084926/http://www.chicagocritic.com/html/boy.html Chicago Critic]
- [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20040220-9999-m1m20julian.html Sign On San Diego]
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Category:American soap opera writers
Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Barnard College alumni
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Category:American women dramatists and playwrights
Category:American women soap opera writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Screenwriters from Illinois