Julie-Anne (she/her) is a writer and dramaturg from New Hampshire.
Her full-length play Little Girl Blue was nominated for the 2022 Open Meadows Foundation Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award and was a semi-finalist for Theatre Viscera’s 2022 Queer Playwriting Contest.
Her 10-minute play The Space Between Us was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Ivoryton Playhouse Women Playwrights Festival and was performed at the 2023 Boston Theater Marathon.
Her 10-minute play An Umbrella for the End of the World was performed at the 2023 SUNY Plattsburgh Climate Play Festival and won the 2022 KCACTF National Playwriting Program’s Planet Earth Award for a play “that addresses sustainability and our responsibility to the planet.”
Julie-Anne was a dramaturg for Company One’s 2022-2023 Volt Circuit Play Lab with Kirsten Greenidge and Ilana Brownstein. She is also a proud member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America.
She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Writing for the Stage and Screen) from Lesley University where she presented her thesis, “Wounds are Not a Weakness: An Exploration of Queer Female Characters and Their Experiences with Trauma, Family, and Identity” as well as an original seminar, “Writing Trauma: How Playwrights Use Traumatic Events As A Tool For Powerful Storytelling.”
She is a plant mom, a poetry lover, and a letter-writing enthusiast. She lives in Boston with her wife.
What People Are Saying
“Julie-Anne is a fantastic dramatist with a singular voice.”
— Jami Brandli, Playwright and Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Drama (2016)
“She gives me hope for the future of Theatre.”
— Kate Snodgrass, Former Artistic Director of
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the Boston Theater Marathon
“Julie-Anne is a meticulous and thoughtful researcher,
an attentive collaborator, and a gifted dramaturg.”
— Theresa Lang, Author of Essential Dramaturgy (2017)
“Her notes are fantastic.
She's so dang good. Everyone hire her!”
— Bryn Boyce, Director