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J Julian Christopher

J JULIAN CHRISTOPHER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  represented by Ben Izzo

J. Julian Christopher (a.k.a Christopher Julian Jiménez) received an MFA from The New School for Drama where he trained as an actor. In 2009 he was awarded the The Public Theaters Emerging Writers Group fellowship. During that fellowship he developed Man Boobs, which went on to have productions in NYC, Montréal, Melbourne, and Chicago. He was invited to workshop his play Nico was a Fashion Model, at LAByrinth Theater Companys 2010 Summer Intensive. Julians plays Metro Psalm and SCHWARZ! (Hansel und Gretel) were selected as finalists in the Off-Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival two years in a row (2009 & 2010). His play Animals Commit Suicide was featured in terraNOVA Collectives Groundworks Reading Series (2012) and a workshop production in 2013 . His latest play, Locusts Have No King, was featured in INTAR's Bright Untamed Queer Play Festival and will have its world premiere at INTAR in the Spring of 2014. Julian is a full-time professor at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York, where he teaches Speech and Theatre. Christopher is also the co-creator, co-producer and lead actor of the hit webseries, BULK.

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below is a list of J Julian Christopher's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alligator Mouth         Animals Commit Suicide         Beast: A Parable         Fourth Ache, The         Guilt Mongers         Horny Orderly - A Symphony Of Sex And Sorrow         Jump For Aid         Leap Year Skin         Locusts Have No King         Man Boobs         Meetings, Meetings, Meetings         Metro Psalm         Nico Was A Fashion Model         Oso Fabuloso and the Bear Backs!         Rebel Judy         Schwarz! (Hansel and Gretel)         Straight Privelage

Alligator Mouth

Synopsis:
A troubled man looking for answers meets a pretty young boy new to New York

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Gay one act

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Animals Commit Suicide

Synopsis:
Chance, a young gay man who has almost everything, dives deep into Chicagos seedy sexual underbelly looking for something more. . .He picks up a drug habit, while also beginning a relationship with a handsome, HIV-Positive baker, claiming falsely to be positive as well, but when those close to him begin to call his motives into question, Chance is forced to decide what he values in a dangerous world.

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A workshop production of Animals Commit Suicide was presented by terraNOVA Collective on December 1 - 15, 2013 at IRT Theater, New York City

1st Produced:
First Floor Theater at Collaboraction Room, Chicago     13 Nov 2015

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Gay, full length 80 min

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Beast: A Parable

Synopsis:
a man and a woman share a dangerously lustful evening at a motel room, confronting race and its impact on sexual protocol. www.threemonos.org 0h 42m, Kew Gardens, NYC Drama,
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0h 42m, Drama,

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Fourth Ache, The

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Guilt Mongers

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A Santiago family prepare for the death of their matriarch. Family secrets and resentments rise to the surface

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Drama

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Horny Orderly - A Symphony Of Sex And Sorrow

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A young man copes with his mother dying from cancer by pursuing the orderly

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Genre:
gay Ten minute play

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Jump For Aid

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Leap Year Skin

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Trying to find his identity a Latino man converts to Judaism

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Drama

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Locusts Have No King

Synopsis:
Two closeted gay couples have a dinner party. They are extremely anxious that no one finds out about their sexuality

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INTAR     Spring 2014

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Genre:
Gay full length

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Man Boobs

Synopsis:
Two men begin to share a night of passion until issues of obesity and self-esteem overpower their sexual and emotional connection

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest 70 min

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Meetings, Meetings, Meetings

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A college professor has his head on the chopping block

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Ten minute play

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Metro Psalm

Synopsis:
Christopher's Metro Psalm is inspired by an Icelandic Folktale, the Seal's Skin. In it, a businessman revisits his past through an evangelical preacher on the NYC Subway system.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizon's Mainstage Theatre, NY     2009

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34th Off Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival

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Genre:
short play 17 min

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Nico Was A Fashion Model

Synopsis:
Levittown natives Luis and Jesse will do anything to get into closing night of the legendary punk club, CBGB's in NYC. Just when all hope is lost, Luis meets his muse who is his ticket inside the club, until a series of events forces him to examine his own identity and the character of those around him. NICO WaS a FaSHION MODeL is an intimate look at race relations from a suburban teenage perspective.

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reading at the LAByrinth Summer Intensive, Bard College     2010

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Three Monos ensemble

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Oso Fabuloso and the Bear Backs!

Synopsis:
Latino bear Oso has been dumped by his daddy bear. Depressed he consults a psychiatrist, Dr Calvo. Calvo suggests he uses singing to get out of the depression. He forms a group with the doctor and two bear friends and they go on tour

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Music by P K Variance; lyrics and book by J Julian Christopher

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian musical

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Rebel Judy

Synopsis:
Two men meet on the morning of the Stonewall Riots and amongst other things talk about Judy Garland

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Ten minute play

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Schwarz! (Hansel and Gretel)

Synopsis:
Two diabetic siblings discover that step-mothers and witches can be the same person

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Straight Privelage

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