Julie McKee
Playwright
Playwrighting Teacher, NYC
Private Coaching
photo by David Armstrong
NEW PRIVATE PLAYWRITING CLASS
Begins April, 2010
Tuesday 3-6pm
Mid-town Location
(go to Teaching Link for details)
For information
regarding private class and/or script consultation
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Julie also teaches at
HB Studios
(212) 675-2370
MEMBER OF THE ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE
DRAMATIST'S GUILD OF AMERICA
AEA/SAG/AFTRA
Website still under construction!!
Bio
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JULIE MCKEE playwright and teacher, grew up in New Zealand, is now a citizen of the US and has made her home in NYC. Like many Kiwis she traveled at an early age and during a stay in Madrid met for the first time, artists and people of the theatre (including Pedro Almodovar). It was then she decided to follow suit - first as a dancer then as an actor.
After writing her first play, "Ron's Garden", she was accepted into the Yale School of Drama where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship and the Eugene O'Neill Scholarship. Since then "The Adventures of Amy Bock" was chosen for the Sundance Playwrights Lab and later premiered at The Yale Repertory Theatre.
"Lola"a musical, and "Will Sacrifice" recently shown at EST's Octoberfest are Julie's most recent works in progress.
Other productions include "The Sleeper Awakens", nominated for the L. Arnold Weisberger Award and produced by HB Playwrights Foundation, "Play By Ear"directed by Pamela Berlin at the HB Playwrights Foundation, "Free Ascent", nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and workshopped by HBPF. "Get It While You Can" premiered at the Yale Summer Cabaret, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology commissioned "Fringe Benefits", which appeared in the First Light Festival.
"Ron's Garden", won the First Annual Directors Project Festival (Synchronicity Space) and was selected to appear in the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
Julie's plays have also been presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center's Page to Stage, and Passage Theatre in New Jersey.
Short plays include: "A Farewell To Mum" (EST Marathon OBIE Award Winner); "Invitation to a Funeral"; "A Backward Glance"; "The 'Far-Flung'" (also EST Marathons); "Hope"; "Millenium Madness"; "Pink and Wild"; "Jill on a Recliner, Reading"; "The Sleeper Awakens"; "Aftermath"; "The Daffodils"; "Haere Mai Ki Aotearoa"; produced at such theatres as The Women's Project, Red Earth Ensemble, HB Playwrights Foundation Summer Shorts, Yale Cabaret, regionally and in New Zealand.
Julie's plays are published by Smith & Kraus and Playscripts Inc. Awards and fellowships include: An international artist residency at St. James Cavalier Center for Creativity in Malta; The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Silver Medal of Theatrical Excellence for contributions to the EST Marathon of One Act Plays and the American Theater, awarded by The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Julie received a Certificate in Drama from the Yale School of Drama MFA playwriting program. She is also an actress and studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios for five years.
Julie has also worked with the 52nd St. Project in New York, the Greylock Project at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven, both replicas of the 52nd St. Project; taught playwriting at Ohio University; the Actors Center in Sydney, Australia; EST Institute; HB Studios; and most recently a guest speaker at Sweet Briar College.
Memberships include: The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Librettists), Actors Studio Playwright/Director Unit, The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Playwright Unit, HBPF Playwright Unit, The Women's Project (2002-2004), Dramatists Guild of America, AEA/AFTRA/SAG.
Julie is also a dedicated Teacher of Playwriting and Private Instructor here in New York City.
Her email address is: jam7@aya.yale.edu
After writing her first play, "Ron's Garden", she was accepted into the Yale School of Drama where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship and the Eugene O'Neill Scholarship. Since then "The Adventures of Amy Bock" was chosen for the Sundance Playwrights Lab and later premiered at The Yale Repertory Theatre.
"Lola"a musical, and "Will Sacrifice" recently shown at EST's Octoberfest are Julie's most recent works in progress.
Other productions include "The Sleeper Awakens", nominated for the L. Arnold Weisberger Award and produced by HB Playwrights Foundation, "Play By Ear"directed by Pamela Berlin at the HB Playwrights Foundation, "Free Ascent", nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and workshopped by HBPF. "Get It While You Can" premiered at the Yale Summer Cabaret, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology commissioned "Fringe Benefits", which appeared in the First Light Festival.
"Ron's Garden", won the First Annual Directors Project Festival (Synchronicity Space) and was selected to appear in the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
Julie's plays have also been presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center's Page to Stage, and Passage Theatre in New Jersey.
Short plays include: "A Farewell To Mum" (EST Marathon OBIE Award Winner); "Invitation to a Funeral"; "A Backward Glance"; "The 'Far-Flung'" (also EST Marathons); "Hope"; "Millenium Madness"; "Pink and Wild"; "Jill on a Recliner, Reading"; "The Sleeper Awakens"; "Aftermath"; "The Daffodils"; "Haere Mai Ki Aotearoa"; produced at such theatres as The Women's Project, Red Earth Ensemble, HB Playwrights Foundation Summer Shorts, Yale Cabaret, regionally and in New Zealand.
Julie's plays are published by Smith & Kraus and Playscripts Inc. Awards and fellowships include: An international artist residency at St. James Cavalier Center for Creativity in Malta; The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Silver Medal of Theatrical Excellence for contributions to the EST Marathon of One Act Plays and the American Theater, awarded by The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Julie received a Certificate in Drama from the Yale School of Drama MFA playwriting program. She is also an actress and studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios for five years.
Julie has also worked with the 52nd St. Project in New York, the Greylock Project at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven, both replicas of the 52nd St. Project; taught playwriting at Ohio University; the Actors Center in Sydney, Australia; EST Institute; HB Studios; and most recently a guest speaker at Sweet Briar College.
Memberships include: The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Librettists), Actors Studio Playwright/Director Unit, The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Playwright Unit, HBPF Playwright Unit, The Women's Project (2002-2004), Dramatists Guild of America, AEA/AFTRA/SAG.
Julie is also a dedicated Teacher of Playwriting and Private Instructor here in New York City.
Her email address is: jam7@aya.yale.edu