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Julia Cho

JULIA CHO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by John Buzzetti

Julia Cho. Her plays include The Language Archive (Susan Smith Blackburn Award), The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Winchester House, BFE, The Architecture of Loss and 99 Histories. Honors include the NTC's Barrie Stavis Award, the Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists, and the Weissberger Award for Playwriting. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for The Arts grant and a Van Lier Fellowship from New York Theatre Workshop. She was also a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School and a resident at New Dramatists.

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         100 Most Beautiful Names Of Todd         99 Histories         Architecture Of Loss, The         Aubergine         Bay And the Spectacles Of Doom         Bfe         Cora and Dave Are Getting Older         Durango         First Tree In Antarctica         How To Be A Good Son         Language Archive, The         Minemonist         Piano Teacher, The         Post It         Round And Round         Winchester House, The

100 Most Beautiful Names Of Todd

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ensemble Studio theatre's 28th Annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays

1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     2006

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Play One act

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99 Histories

Synopsis:
What is remembered is made up. the only homelands that exist are imaginary. Love is nothing; there is only chung. eunice, a former prodigy, comes home to decide what to do with the baby that has unexpectedly taken root inside her. But before she can move forward she must first confront the ghosts of a difficult past. 99 HISTORIeS is a play about memory, legacy and the unbreakable bond between mother and child.

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1st Produced:
Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory     2002

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Architecture Of Loss, The

Synopsis:
It's another hot day in Tucson when a strange man arrives at Catherine's door. To her shock, he turns out to be Greg, her former husband, who-sixteen years earlier and for no clear reason-left and simply never came back. Now, he has returned, but the family he left no longer exists. Catherine informs him that their son, David, disappeared eight years ago and remains missing. One by one each member of the family tells Greg a version of what happened the summer David disappeared. their stories are a meditation on loss and the abiding power of the unknowable. But they are also about the need we all have for explanations, answers and, perhaps above all, absolution. For as they reveal their stories, the only thing that becomes clear is that the nine-year-old boy who vanished is far from the only thing they lost.

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1st Produced:
Ny Theatre Workshop     2004

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Aubergine

Synopsis:
An estranged son, a father whos ill, a visiting uncle carrying their memories in tow, a woman without an appetite, and a refugee from a forgotten countrythey all prove potent ingredients in this bittersweet and moving meditation on family, forgiveness, and the things that nourish us. When language fails, when the past fades, the perfect meal transcends time and culture and says more than words ever can.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bay And the Spectacles Of Doom

Synopsis:
Bay is a boy who can't seem to do anything right. He yearns to be a baseball star, but even his mom points out that "athletes don't wear glasses!" On his eleventh birthday, a strange man from outer space gives Bay some magic beans, and a chance to have the life he always dreamed of. But redoing the past ends up being a lot more complicated than Bay realizes. . .

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1st Produced:
La Jolla Theater's Pop Tour (La Jolla, Ca, United States)     2005

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
30-35 min Comedy for young audiences

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  3 males, 2 females (5-19 actors possible: 3-18 males, 2-17 females)

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Bfe

Synopsis:
Panny's mother is into plastic surgery. Her uncle paints miniatures. Young blonde women are going missing.

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1st Produced:
Seattle Repertory Theatre     2003

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Services,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

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Cora and Dave Are Getting Older

Synopsis:
A not-so-young couple confronts the biggest threat to their marriage: their happily married best friends.

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The 35th Marathon Of One-Act Plays

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Genre:
one act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Durango

Durango
In Durango, single Father Boo-Seng decides it's time for a family road trip to Durango, Colorado. as he and his two teenage sons get closer to their destination, secrets are revealed that intensify the sons' struggle with growing up in the shadow of their father, who left Korea to pursue the American Dream.
nytheatre.com

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2007
in Version 3.0: Contemporary Asian American Plays, Theatre Communications Group (2 aug 2011)   978-1559363631

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  doubling

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First Tree In Antarctica

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part of ensemble Studio theatre's 29th Annual Marathon-a festival of new short plays from A diverse spectrum of American playwrights

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Genre:
short play One act

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How To Be A Good Son

Synopsis:
For most of his life, Steven and his Father have been distant, if not outright antagonistic. But now that Steven is thirty and his Father is ill, will the two men finally be able to put their differences behind them?How To Be a Good Son explores the difficult terrain of familial love and the near impossibility of saying what we feel to the ones we love -- even, or especially, when we know that time is running out.

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1st Produced:
Kobe City University Of Foreign Studies (Kobe, Hyogo, , Japan)     2004

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
20-30 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 males, 1 female

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Language Archive, The

Synopsis:
George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures. Closer to home, though, language is failing him. He doesn't know what to say to his wife, Mary, to keep her from leaving him, and he doesn't recognize the deep feelings that his lab assistant, Emma, has for him.

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1st Produced:
South Coast Repertory Theatre     2009

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Services, Inc (2012)   978-0822225096

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Genre:
comedy Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Minemonist

Synopsis:
A woman who remembers everything

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1st Produced:
Source Festival Of One Act Plays, Washington D C     2008

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Genre:
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Piano Teacher, The

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Mrs. K is an elderly widow who lives by herself in a small suburban town. She whiles away her time reminiscing about her late husband and the children she taught long ago as a piano instructor. One day, she finds herself compelled to call her old students, but is it out of loneliness or some other, darker need? as Mrs. K discovers, it may not be what we cannot know that troubles us the most; it may be what we cannot bear to know.

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Vineyard Theatre

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Services, Inc (2009)   978-0822222859

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Post It

Synopsis:
a one act about a depressed young woman who takes a phone call from her meddling father, who bolsters his daughter's sagging self-confidence by relating a sweet memory of her childhood -- a tiny incident that draws his daughter back from the brink of despair .
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1st Produced:
Thumping Claw     2008

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Round And Round

Synopsis:
George is a linguist. He speaks many, many languages. But when his marriage starts to unravel, he suddenly finds himself utterly at a loss for the right words.
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1st Produced:
Milagro Theater, NY     2008

Organisations:
Second Generation

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Genre:
One act

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Winchester House, The

Synopsis:
We've all got one story to tell, the story that helps explain who we are and how we got there. When she's given a chance to confront her past, Via has a choice: will she go on telling the same old story or have the courage to tell a new one? Rising star Julia Cho lays bare the strategies we use to hide from ourselves as she unravels the unreliable fabric of memory.
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1st Produced:
Boston Court     2006

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