After writing her first play, "Ron's Garden", Julie was accepted into the Yale School of Drama where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship and the Eugene O'Neill Scholarship. Since then "The Adventures of Amy Bock" was chosen for the Sundance Playwrights Lab and later premiered at The Yale Repertory Theatre.
Will Sacrifice, HB Theatre's OTHERS & US: Staged Readings of Six New Plays, June 2019, and developed at Southampton Writers Conference/EST is Julie's most recent work in progress.
Most recently A Holiday on Ice in a Warm Climate, commissioned by CCTA, Climate Change Theater Action 2019, is to be published in an Anthology entitled "Lighting the Way".
During her 2002 residency, Julie McKee completed a short play "The Sleeper Awakens" to be produced at #BPF in New York City in their short play festival, June 2002. She also completed a draft of her full length play which has no title yet, to be read in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's Octoberfest, 2002. Her new play, "Play by Ear", was workshopped at HBPF in Dec, 2001, in New York City.
In 2005 she started and finished the first draft of the libretto of a musical based on the life of Lola Montez. Her short play "Hope" was produced in New York in 2004 and was scheduled to be published by Smith & Kraus. Her new full-length play, "The Sleeper Awakens," would be read at HB Playwrights Foundation in New York in 2005.
