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JULIE MCKEE |
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Nationality: New Zealand/USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Julie McKee grew up in New Zealand, is now a citizen of the U.S. and has made her home in New York City. Like many Kiwis she traveled at an early age and during a stay in Madrid met for the first time, artists and people of the theatre (including Pedro Almodovar). It was then she decided to follow suit -- first as a dancer then as an actor. After writing her first play, Ron's Garden, she was accepted into the Yale School of Drama. Since then The Adventures of Amy Bock was chosen for the Sundance Playwrights Lab and later premiered at The Yale Repertory Theatre. Her plays include Play By Ear, which was produced by the HB Playwrights Foundation (director Pam Berlin), and Free Ascent,which was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and workshopped by HBPF. Get It While You Can premiered at the Yale Summer Cabaret, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology commissioned Fringe Benefits, which appeared in the First Light Festival. Ron's Garden, won the First Annual Directors Project Festival (at Synchronicity Space) and was selected to appear in the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts. Ms. McKee's plays have also been presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center's Page to Stage, and Passage Theatre in New Jersey. Upcoming full-length plays include The Sleeper Awakens, recently nominated for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and Lola, a musical. Her short plays include: A Farewell To Mum (OBIE Award Winning EST Marathon); Invitation to a Funeral; A Backward Glance; The 'Far-Flung' (also EST Marathons); Hope; Millennium Madness; Pink and Wild; Jill on a Recliner, Reading; The Sleeper Awakens; Aftermath; The Daffodils; and Haere Mai Ki Aotearoa; and have been produced at such theatres as The Women's Project, Red Earth Ensemble, HB Playwrights Foundation Summer Shorts, Yale Cabaret, as well as regionally and in New Zealand. Ms. McKee's plays are published by Smith & Kraus and Playscripts, Inc. Awards and fellowships include: An international artist residency at St. James Cavalier Center for Creativity in Malta; The MacDowell Colony; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts; and The Silver Medal for contribution of Theatrical Excellence to the EST Marathon of One Act Plays and the American Theater, awarded by The Ensemble Studio Theatre. She received a Certificate in Drama from the Yale School of Drama MFA playwriting program, where she was the recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Scholarship and the Truman Capote Fellowship. She is also an actress and studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios for five years. Ms. McKee has worked with the 52nd St. Project in New York, the Greylock Project at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven, which are both replicas of the 52nd St. Project. She has taught playwriting at Ohio University; the Actors Center in Sydney, Australia; EST Institute; HB Studios; and was recently a guest speaker at Sweet Briar College. Memberships include: Ensemble Studio Theatre; The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Librettists); HBPF Playwright Unit; The Women's Project Playwright Lab (2002-2004); Dramatists Guild of America; and AEA/AFTRA/SAG.
Plays by Julie McKee
Adventures of Amy Brock, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112908 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | The adventures of a conwoman in 1900s New Zealand and Australia | |||||
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Aftermath | ||
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55257 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A modern version of what happens after Medea flees in her winged chariot. | |||||
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Backward Glance, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Earth Ensemble (New York, NY, United States) | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55254 | |||
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Genre: | 10-20 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | Auckland, New Zealand, 1979. A cheerfully heavy-drinking divorcee spots her former neighbor's daughter taking a peek around the old neighborhood, having just returned after years of aimlessness abroad. As they sit down for an awkward drink, their hilarious forced pleasantries soon peel away, revealing the long-buried longings and regrets they both carry with them. | |||||
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Daffodils | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112909 | |||
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Genre: | One act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two motel cleaners on life and love | |||||
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Dig'n Arch | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112910 | |||
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Genre: | One act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A husband and wife in their seventies are visited by the husband's brother and nothing is the same again | |||||
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Farewell To Mum | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112911 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Eighteen year old David is leaving home | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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'Far-Flung', The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55256 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 25-30 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 4 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | A small-town New Zealand parish erupts into zany political and ecumenical antics as the clergyman's wife attempts to control every last detail of the upcoming pageant to celebrate the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth's visit. Their hilariously chaotic meeting takes an even more outrageous turn when church member Bobby Younghusband shows up, with a tale that turns the entire proceedings on end. Could all the rumors about the clergyman and his wife be true? | |||||
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Hope | ||
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55258 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two lonely unmarried women who have not seen each other in years wait at the reception for the wedding guests to arrive. While they wait, they laugh, they argue, they catch up, only to discover that not only are they at the wrong wedding, they don't actually know each other. | |||||
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Invitation to a Funeral | ||
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation (New York, NY, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55255 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 12-15 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | Prior to expiring, a deadbeat ex-hippie sent a memo to his former wives inviting them to his funeral, and two of the women on the rather long list happen to meet at the open-coffin viewing. Neither has many good memories of their former husband, and his current state of near-nudity (save a strategically placed cowboy hat) doesn't exactly help matters. But bad memories or not, it's time for both to find a way to make peace and move on. | |||||
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Ron's Garden | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112912 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Synopsis: | A New Zealand suburb in 1958. The Hoopers and the Baileys live next door to each other. The Hooper's marriage is going through a bad patch. The Bailey's son is retarded and he is having problems with growing up | |||||
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Sleeper Awakens, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | HB Playwrights Foundation | May 2009 | ||||
Company: | HB Playwrights Foundation | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106877 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Inspired by Calderon's "Life is a Dream, "The Sleeper Awakens" is seen through the lense of a Preston Sturges screwball comedy. -------------- Doreen wakes up to find she is no longer a secretary trapped in a job she loathes, but an heiress, if only she can pass the test set before her by her crazy oil tycoon father. If she fails the test will she wake up to find herself a secretary who dreamt she was an heiress? Or is she really an heiress dreaming she's a secretary? | |||||
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