JULIE WEINBERG’S plays include Bad Daughter, Face It and Starring America. Face It was developed at Actors Studio’s PDW and featured in their New Works Festival September 2019.  In 2017 Bad Daughter was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting.  In 2019 "Is It Cold in here?" was the winner in the short play division of Bechdel Test 2.0 in Arizona.  In 2018, she was commissioned by the Edna Ferber estate to write a one-act, You’re Not the Type, based on one of Ferber’s delicious short stories. It became part of Five by Ferber, produced by NJ Rep, published by Smith & Kraus.  Pet Peeves, her evening of short comedies inspired by her favorite creature, the cat, was given its first reading by Workshop Theater this past spring.

A National Finalist in Kennedy Center ACTF with her one act, Fault, her short comedy, The Eleven O’clock Number and her screwball comedy, The Teller’s Tale.  Her work has also been produced and/or developed by ATHE, The Warner Theater Festival, Ramapo College Emerging Playwrights, Brooklyn’s Gallery Players, NJ City University and Spokane’s KYRS Radio.  For the screen, Me and Tess, an homage to her many years as a waitress, was featured as part of Harvardwood’s Pilot Season Survival Guide.  She was a co-writer of Deserter, a feature film directed by Martin Huberty and starring Tom Hardy.  

Julie is a founding member of the 9th Floor, a collective of professional writers and actors in New York City, currently in its tenth season.  She is a graduate of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Writing for Stage and Screen and a proud member of Actors Equity and the Dramatist Guild. www.JulieWeinbergplaywright.com