Julia Jarcho is a playwright and director from New York with the company Minor Theater (“plays for others”). Her work often explores themes of desire and violence, and tries out new ways for language and materiality to resist each other, opening each other up in unforeseen directions. The aim is always to find pockets of humor, disturbance, and strangeness within forms and stories we might think we already know. In an age when every conceivable feeling, identity or “difference” can be ruthlessly commodified the moment it is declared, she believes it’s still possible to find secret cracks and crevices in this system, and that it’s our job as artists to do so. Plays include Grimly Handsome (Incubator, 2013 and Jack, 2015), Every Angel Is Brutal (Clubbed Thumb, 2016), Nomads (Incubator, 2014), Dreamless Land (New York City Players, 2011), and American Treasure (13P, 2009). She has won an Obie Award for Best New American Play (Grimly Handsome), a 2014 Doris Duke Impact Award, and a 2016 Sarah Verdone Writing Award. A book of her plays is forthcoming from 53rd State Press. She also teaches and writes about theater in the English department at NYU.
Julia Jarcho
Studios
Banks
Julia Jarcho worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…