Julie Jensen has been writing plays for more than 30 years. She has won a dozen awards, among them the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays, the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work, the Edgerton Foundation’s New American Plays Award and the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award. She has been commissioned by a dozen theatres including the Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Salt Lake Acting Company. She has received grants from NEA, TCG and Pew Charitable Trusts, among others. Her work has been produced in New York, London and theatres nationwide. She has taught playwriting at five universities and has written a book on the craft titled Playwriting, Brief & Brilliant. Many of her plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, including Two-Headed, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, Dust Eaters, Wait!, The Harvey Girls and Mockingbird. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and the National Theatre Conference.
