doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Julie Jensen

JULIE JENSEN

  
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    The Susan Gurman Agency, LLC  

Julie Jensen 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), the La Weekly award for Best New Play (Two-Headed), and the McKnight National Playwriting Fellowship (Wait!). She has won the Mill Mountain Theatre Playwriting Competition three times (Tender Hooks, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, andTwo-Headed). Her plays have been produced in London (the Lost Vegas Series) and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Last Lists of My Mad Mother). In the U.S. she has been produced by the Women's Project in New York (Two-Headed andCheat) as well as in Theatres nationwide. Her work has been commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, aSK Theatre Projects, and the Kennedy Center. Recently awarded the Nea/TCG Residency Grant, she wrote and premiered Wait! She now holds a major grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and as Resident Playwright at Salt Lake acting Company is writing the Goshute Play.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Julie Jensen's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Across the Wide And Lonesome Prairie         Brown Shoes, The         Cabbage Head         Cheat         Double Mandible         Dust Eaters         Last Lists Of My Mad Mother         Lost Vegas Series, The         Mockingbird         Neon Mirage         On Lincoln's Head         Pet Names         Return to the Upright Position         She Was My Brother         Snapshot         Stray Dogs         Tenderhooks         Two-Headed: "A Play Of History"         Wait!         Water Turn         White Money

Across the Wide And Lonesome Prairie

Synopsis:
Migrating with their parents on the Oregon Trail in 1847, two thirteen-year old girls become fast friends as they grow up together on their humorous and harrowing journey.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playwrights Theatre, 33 Green Village Road, Madison, Nj.    05 Nov 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Brown Shoes, The

Brown Shoes, The
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Ten 10-Minute Plays: Volume III, Black Box Press (July 13, 2010)   978-0615383897

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Cabbage Head

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Cheat

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Women's Project Theater, NY    2002

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Double Mandible

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Dust Eaters

Synopsis:
One white family and one Native American family, living side by side, in the west desert of Utah. the play covers the time between 1877 and the present, a total of seven generations, each scene taking place a generation later than the one before. We follow the life of albertine who begins as a ten-year-old Goshute girl living with a white family on a ranch next to her tribe's ancestral land. We trace the interdependence and resentment, the love and denial of the two families. In the end albertine's great grandchildren are grappling with a decision to store high-level nuclear waste on their reservation.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Last Lists Of My Mad Mother

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama with umour

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Lost Vegas Series, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nomad / Theatre Pod

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Mockingbird

Synopsis:
Caitlin's world has always been black and white. As a girl with Asperger's syndrome, she has always relied on her older brother Devon to help her make sense of the world outside of her favorite textbooks and dictionaries. Suddenly, tragedy strikes and Caitlin is left on her own. But with the help of a new friend, her school advisor, and her father, Caitlin begins to see that maybe what everyone needs is closure. Adapted by Julie Jensen from Kathryn Erskine's National Book Award-winning novel, and directed by Tracy Callahan, Mockingbird is a new theater for young audiences play in development that shows how black and white are complemented by vibrant colors, which are beautiful and necessary for healing.

Notes:
from the novel by Kathryn Erskine. the Kennedy Center hosts its 12th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

1st Produced:
Kennedy Center, Family Theater, Dc    31 Aug 2013

Organisations:
Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences and VSA

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Neon Mirage

Synopsis:
38 million people visit Las Vegas every year for the glitz, the tits and the gold. But what's it like to live and work in America's Disneyland for grown-ups? Could you tell what's real and what's just a mirage?

Notes:
written by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Julie Jenson, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson And Chay Yew, Music And Lyrics by Rick Hip Flores. Venue 5: Henry Street Settlement - Harry de Jur Playhouse

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the 2006 apprentice Company from Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy Musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

On Lincoln's Head

Synopsis:
aggrieved over her lost father, Babe is throwing firecrackers off the top of Lincoln's head. annette, a ranger, is the only one crazy enough to stop her. This piece is part of Snapshot, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Snapshot.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
5-10 min Comic Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 females

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pet Names

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
in "Winter Rites", the North By South Short Play Festival

1st Produced:
Parish Church Of St. Mark, Glendale, Ca    01 Dec 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Return to the Upright Position

Synopsis:
online text collaboration in response to 9/11

Notes:
Written by Greg Romero, Cusi Cram; Mitchell Gossett; Julie Hebet; Llysa Holland; Julie Jensen; Jennifer Maisel; Julia Pearlstein; Brad Rothbart; Caridad Svich; Ann E Taylor; Elizabeth Wong; Michael Wright; Allison Eve Zell

1st Produced:
Perishable Theatre Textplosion Series, Providence, Ri    2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
text performance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

She Was My Brother

Synopsis:
Based Loosely On Historical events, This Reading explores the Story Of Two Rivaling ethnographers and their Journey With a Zuni Transvestite To Washington, D.C.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Salt Lake acting Company In Partnership With Theater alliance

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Snapshot

Synopsis:
a photograph captures and documents a single moment in time and space -- a snapshot of history, of a reality bounded by the photo's frame. But what lies outside, beyond, behind the photograph? and what stories, memories, or associations does an image of place inspire? In this multi-writer project from Actors theatre of Louisville, a diverse assortment of talented playwrights encounter and transform Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, a compelling image of the monument by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. their thought-provoking scenes and monologues range from delightful comedy to utterly serious tragedy, each approaching the photo's themes through a new lens. To perform the entire collection, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
80-100 min Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  11            Other:  11 males, 11 females (4-25 actors possible: 2-15 males, 2-15 females)

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Stray Dogs

Synopsis:
the place is a small town in rural Utah, where a young mother, Nyda, wages a good-humored struggle to provide a decent, if threadbare, home for her two adolescent sons, Reese and J. Roy, with little help from her ne'er-do-well, alcoholic husband, Myers. J. Roy, the older son, is reserved and pensive, and preoccupied with religion; Reese is hyperactive and disruptive, and sometimes more than Nyda can handle; but both boys (like their mother) are drawn to their soft-spoken uncle, Wells, a bachelor farmer (and Myers' brother) who has become a surrogate Father to them and a mainstay of support for their mother. When Myers shows up after another extended binge, the deep-seated animosities that beset the family begin to surface with growing ferocity, as he vents his frustrations with wild boasts of far-fetched money-making schemes and vicious taunts about his brother's obviously deepening regard for the beleaguered Nyda. Inevitably the underlying tensions build to an explosive, fatal climax, which is both shocking and, at the same time, compassionately revealing of the tragic consequences which can ensue when hopefulness and love are overcome by bitterness and despair.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2b

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Tenderhooks

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Two-Headed: "A Play Of History"

Synopsis:
Starting in 1857 when they were ten years old the play follows the lives of two friends until they are fifty

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Wait!

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Water Turn

Synopsis:
Two old guys, neighbors for years, meet every Monday night at the irrigation ditch. This night Weldon reveals something that will change the routine and forever.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

White Money

White Money
White Money is a comedy in six parts about sex, television, and the American Way. an adventure through contemporary culture, the play follows one woman, ella, on a corrupt, epic journey in the Western United States, a journey that transforms her from Wendover sunbather to Las Vegas waitress to Oklahoma truck driver

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Original Works, Los Angeles   owwhitemoney

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page