Julie Jensen

Julie Jensen was reared in southern Utah. She has a PH.D. in theatre from Wayne State University in Detroit, and has taught playwriting at seven different colleges and universities. She worked as a writer in Hollywood for five years, directed the graduate playwriting program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is now Resident Playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company.

Julie is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays (White Money), the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work (The Lost Vegas Series), and the LA Weekly Award for Best New Play (Two-Headed). She has received the McKnight National Playwriting Fellowship (WAIT!), the TCG/NEA Playwriting Residency (WAIT!), and a major grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts(Dust Eaters). Her play, Two-Headed, was included in the volume Best Plays by Women, 2000, Billion Dollar Baby received the Edgerton Award, and she has twice been nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the best new play produced outside of New York (Last Lists of My Mad Mother and Dust Eaters).

Her plays, some thirty in all, have been produced in London, Edinburgh, New York, and theatres nationwide.