julia izumi
wayward weirdo who writes plays and likes to color.
upcoming/recent stuff
January 2024: A workshop of My Six Therapists was presented as part of Clubbed Thumb's Winterworks.
August 2023: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with Live & Active Cultures) was a part of the 2023 Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival.
July-August 2023: Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea had a run outdoors at Seattle's Dacha Theatre.
June 2023: A Re-enactment of the Imagined Trial of Daisy the Cow, who Allegedly caused the Great Chicago Fire had a reading as part of The Civilians' Findings Series.
June 2023: Meet Murasaki Shikibu... had a run in Philly, produced by Tiny Dynamite.
March-April 2023: Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea had a run in DC produced by Rorschach Theatre.
March-April 2023: Regretfully, So the Birds Are had its world premiere Off-Broadway, co-produced by Playwrights Horizons and WP.
October 2022-June 2023: Julia was part of the LMCC Workspace Residency.
October 2022-June 2023: Julia is part of the Civilians R&D Group.
August 2022: Julia's episode as part of Playwrights Horizons' Soundstage has been released! LISTEN HERE!
June 16-July 3 2022: miku, and the gods ran as part of ArtsWest's 21-22 Season, co-produced by Pork Filled Productions, in Seattle.
2021-2029: Julia is a New Dramatists Resident, Class of 2029.
2020-2021: Julia was an Audrey Resident at New Georges.
October 2021: Regretfully, So the Birds Are had an in-person(!!!) reading at Clubbed Thumb.
August 2021: Regretfully, So the Birds Are had a virtual reading as part of the Ojai Playwrights Conference.
May 2021: Julia and Alex Hare's Capricorn 29 was presented through Post-Theatrical and the Tank. Read reviews here!
April 2021: Julia collaborated with Theatre in Quarantine in a commission through New Georges. WATCH IT HERE!
April 2021: miku, and the gods. will be presented as part of Rorschach Theatre's Magic in Rough Spaces.
March 2021: Julia and Grace Oberhofer and Logan Reed workshopped Hot Cross Buns as part of Seattle Rep's The Other Season.
February 2021: Julia has received the inaugural Dr. Kerry English Award from Ojai Playwrights Conference.
January 2021-February 2021: Julia was a part of the inaugural Clusterf**k cohort at The Coop.
VERY IMPORTANT STUFF!!!
HAVE YOU NABBED YOUR COPY OF Dry Swallow by Lucas Baisch???
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