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Julia Jordan

JULIA JORDAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Julia Jordan is a Juilliard Playwright Fellow, a Manhattan Theater Club Fellow and a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild. She holds an M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin and teaches advanced playwriting at Barnard. Her play TaTJaNa IN COLOR won the Francesca Primus Prize and was short-listed for the Susan Smith Blackburn award. Other plays include ST. SCaRLeT, BOY and SUMMeR OF the SWaNS, a play for children. all four were produced in New York during the 2003-2004 season. Other works for children include GUITaR and WaLK TWO MOONS, as well as the book to the musical SaRaH,PLaIN aND TaLL which won a Kleban award and an aTT Onstage award. She is currently working on the book of a new musical, eVeR aFTeR, to be directed by Doug Hughes. Her short film the HaT, which she wrote and directed, premiered at the Sundance Festival and was the most played short shown on IFC in 2001-2002.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Baggage Claim         Bernice Bobs Her Hair         Boy         Cake Off         Dark Yellow         Guitar         Jones         Mice         MPLS St Paul         Murder Ballad         Nightswim         Sarah, Plain and Tall         Smoking Lesson, The         St Scarlet         Storyville         Summer Of the Swans         Tatjana In Color         Walk Two Mooms
Baggage Claim

Baggage Claim
A woman has arranged to meet her lover at the baggage claim at the airport at the very same spot where they first met. However someone else is standing in that spot and he wont move

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Contained in: "Great Short Plays volume 9" published by Playscripts   

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Synopsis:
1920s. Young men and woman dance and flirt in pursuit of status and romance

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Music by Adam Gwon; lyrics by Adam Gwon; Julia Jordan; book by Julia Jordan. Based on the short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F Scott Fitzgerald

1st Produced:
NAMT, New York     03 Jul 1905

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Boy

Synopsis:
a seventeen-year-old boy with a gift for storytelling comes from rural Iowa to the Twin Cities in search of a new home and start in life. Unbeknownst to them, he has idealized and seized on an educated family through an internet correspondence with their son. He seduces each in turn, with his stories. One of which is horrific and true.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Cake Off

Synopsis:
A man has won through to the final of television's "Cake Off". The women are apoplectic about this

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Music by Adam Gwon; lyrics by Adam Gwon; Julia Jordan; book by Julia Jordan; Sheri Wilner

1st Produced:
Signature Theatre, Arlington     29 Sep 2015

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Dark Yellow

Synopsis:
In a rural place, a murder in a cornfield gradually becomes the focus of an unusual encounter between a local woman and a stranger she meets at the small town bar. as they engage in a bedroom game of questions, wordplay, and sexual intrigue, both strive for a connection while identities and motives remain hidden. Testing the boundaries of trust and intimacy, they struggle with their instincts toward suspicion and self-preservation.
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Studio Dante, NY     01 May 2006

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Guitar

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Jones

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Mice

Mice
allan is a pest controller. He asks clients to leave their homes for several hours whilst he works. But he uses part of the time to see Virga. they are both married to other people and unable to get divorces to be together. they decide to take rat poison

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Music by Laurence O'Keefe; lyrics by Nell Dunbar Banjamin; book by Julia Jordan. Based on A short story by Sinclair Lewis. Originally performed with two other one Act musicals under the overall title "3hree"

1st Produced:
Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia     2000

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Original cast recording ("3hree"): DRG (12992) 2001

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MPLS St Paul

MPLS St Paul
In this spirited teenage romance, Billy and Mel use their favorite music to test the waters of friendship. an element of uncertainty taints this steamy summer interlude.

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part of Life Under 30

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Murder Ballad

Synopsis:
Sara is dating bartender Tom. She dumps him because of his wild ways. She meets and marries Michael a student. Years later now with a child Sara yearns for Tom. She starts a passionate affair with him. Then she starts yearning for Michael

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Music by Juliana Nash; lyrics by Julia Jordan; Juliana Nash; book by Julia Jordan

1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York     31 Oct 2012

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Nightswim

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Black water, black sky, midnight-it's a beautiful night for a swim, but for two young girls, the lake holds the promise of both velvety warmth and danger. Will Rosie convince Christina to come out and play?

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in Humana Festival 2002: the Complete Plays, edited by Tanya Palmer and amy Wegener, Smith and Kraus, 2002   

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

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Jacob a farmer in Kansas advertises for a wife after his wife died and left him with two children. Sarah in Maine answers it and heads west

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Music by Laurence O'Keefe; lyrics by Nell Benjamin; book by Julia Jordan

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Smoking Lesson, The

Synopsis:
Three fifteen year old girls are gathered together for their yearly remembrance of their older friend who committed suicide. And then there is Tom the town layabout who may have had something to do with her death

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Loeb Ex, Harvard     Feb 2014

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Contained in: "Leading Women: Plays For Actresses II" published by Vinatge Books 2005   

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St Scarlet

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With their mother recently deceased and her body unable to be removed from the house because of a Minnesota blizzard, three siblings are at war. a strange man from New York bursts in and declares that the eldest daughter and he are in love. She claims she has never laid eyes on him, but he refuses to leave without her. the younger sister falls for the stranger, much to his dismay. and the brother is simply disgusted by the whole thing. then the secrets start coming out.

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1st Produced:
Wet< NY     2003

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Dark romantic comedy

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Storyville

Synopsis:
New Orleans 1900. A young woman is struggling with her future at a brothel

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Music by Lisa DeSpain; lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez; book by Julia Jordan

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at New Dramatists, New York     Jan 2009

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Summer Of the Swans

Synopsis:
A story of loyalty and love between fourteen year old Sara and her disbled brother

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1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York    

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tatjana In Color

Synopsis:
With their mother recently deceased and her body unable to be removed from the house because of a Minnesota blizzard, three siblings are at war. a strange man from New York bursts in and declares that the eldest daughter and he are in love. She claims she has never laid eyes on him, but he refuses to leave without her. the younger sister falls for the stranger, much to his dismay. and the brother is simply disgusted by the whole thing. then the secrets start coming out.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Walk Two Mooms

Synopsis:
Salamanca thirteen takes her grandparent's car and drives from Ohio to Idaho. Her mother had run off and her father pays too much attention to the woman next door - Salamanca thinks she is a serial killer. Her best friend Phoebe has met a boy and she is convinced he is a lunatic

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1st Produced:
Theatre Works, New York     27 Jun 1905

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