Julia Jordan

Jordan was born in Chicago and spent much of her early life in Minnesota. Later, she would settle in New York City to pursue a life as a painter. However, this did not come to fruition. Upon graduating college, she briefly worked as a CNN copywriter. While attending Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater[2] for acting, she was inspired to begin writing for the stage.

Several of Jordan's plays were staged during the late 1990s and early 2000s earning critical praise.[3] In 2000, her short film "The Hat", which she co-directed with Terry Stacey, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently ran on IFC in 2001–2002.[4][5] Her second short, which she wrote and photographer Glen Luchford directed, won "Best Short Film" at the Jackson Hole Film Festival in 2008.

She is a Lortel Fellow, Juilliard Playwright Fellow, Manhattan Theater Club Fellow, Member of the Dramatists Guild of America Council and New Dramatists. Jordan is represented by The Gersh Agency.[6]

Due to her achievements in theater, she was asked to participate in Barnard College's "Great Writers at Barnard" conference in 2006.

Jordan is a founder and the executive director of The Lillys, created in 2010 to honor female playwrights and address the shortage of plays by women that get produced in the United States.[7]

• MPLS, St Paul
• St Paul (1999)
• Nightswim (2002)
• St. Scarlet (2003)
• Summer Of The Swans (2003)
• Boy (2004)
• Tatjana in Color (2004)
• Dark Yellow (2006)
• Walk Two Moons
• Murder Ballad

Films

• The Hat (2000)

Television

• As The World Turns (script writer)

• The Francesca Primus Prize for Tatjana in Color[5]
• three times shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, one honorable mention
• Jonathan Larson Award

• Timeout Chicago
• Chicago Critic
• Sign On SanDiego