JULIE WEINBERG

JULIE WEINBERG is a playwright and screenwriter whose plays include Bad Daughter, Face it, Starring America and MacDougal Street. Her award-winning one-acts are numerous: The Eleven O’Clock Number, The Teller’s Tale, Free Association, Friends from the East and Fault.

Julie received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting for Bad Daughter. Short & Sweet Hollywood awarded "Is It Cold in here?" a finalist in its most recent Hollywood festival in October 2022. You're Not the Type, based on an Edna Ferber short story was featured in the Five by Ferber Festival at New Jersey Repertory in 2018 and in 2019 "Is It Cold in here?" won short play division of Bechdel Test 2.0 Arizona. Pandemic productions on Zoom in Dallas, Albany and Toronto of her short comedy, Buttercup’s Lament, inspired the ongoing creation of the animated short by the same name. Bad Daughter twice zoomed during 20-21 and featured Mary Testa and Frank Wood, both Tony winners. She is currently adapting Bad Daughter into a screenplay. Her work has also been produced and/or developed by The Actors Studio, ATHE, Emergence Theatre, Short & Sweet, Create Theater, Warner Theater Festival. Stay tuned for St. Pete’s Radio Theater Project’s version of The Teller’s Tale coming to their theater in January ’23 and then to Soundcloud!

Julie is a graduate of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Writing for Stage and Screen and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.