JULIA JORDAN's plays include  Boy,  Tatjana in Color,  St. Scarlet, Smoking Lesson, Dark Yellow, Astrological Quitclaim Deeds and  Jones. Musical work includes the books for  Sarah, Plain and Tall and  The Mice; book and lyrics for  Murder Ballad and  Bernice Bobs Her Hair. She is the recipient of the Kleban Award, the Francesca Primus Prize, Jonathan Larson Award, Heideman Award, LeComte Nouy Award, ATT Onstage Award and the American Spirit Award. She has been shortlisted three times for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. She has held fellowships from The Juilliard School, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Manhattan Theater Club and the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been produced at Primary Stages, Actor's Theater of Louisville, Soho Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Prince Music Theater, the Ahmanson, Studio Dante, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company, the American Theater of Chicago and Baltimore Center Stage among others.  Her plays have been developed at Sundance, The O'Neill, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Playlabs at the Minneapolis Playwrights Center. She has taught playwriting at Primary Stages and at Barnard College, Columbia University and is one of the three founders of the Lilly Awards for Women in Theater.