Julia 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. Jordan graduated in 1989 from Barnard College and later received a master’s degree from Trinity Dublin. Upon graduating college, she briefly worked as a CNN copywriter. She is now a successful playwright and screenwriter. Her musicals and plays include Murder Ballad, Boy, Tatjana in Color, St. Scarlet, Smoking Lesson, Dark Yellow, Astrological Quit Claim Deeds, Jones, Sarah Plain and Tall, Storyville, and Girlfight. Jordan’s awards include, Jonathan Larson Award, Kleban Award, Francesca Primus Prize, Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, Manhattan Theatre Club Fellowship, Heideman Award, Lecomte du Noüy Award, AT&T: OnStage Award, and the AmeriCAN Spirit Award. Her work has been produced at Primary Stages, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Soho Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Prince Music Theater, the Ahmanson, Studio Dante, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company, the American Theater of Chicago and Baltimore Center Stage among others.Her work been developed at Sundance, the O’Neill, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights Center, the MacDowell and New Dramatists. She is a cofounder 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 America. Jordan is also a Dramatists Guild Council member.
Julia Jordan
Studios
Calderwood
Julia Jordan worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…