Julia Izumi

Playwrights debut. Julia’s work has been developed and presented at MTC, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seattle Rep, The COOP, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, and Pork Filled Productions. Awards and honors: OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, O’Neill’s National Playwriting Conference Finalist, Kilroys List Honorable Mention, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. She is a current New Dramatists Resident. Current commissions: True Love Productions, MTC/Sloan, Playwrights Horizons. MFA: Brown University juliaizumi.com

• “Julia Izumi is first-rate talent whose work is funny, insightful, and masterful. I can’t wait to see what she does next.”

  — DC Metro Theater Arts

• “Equal parts chaos and absurdity.”

  — Maya Phillips, The New York Times

• “Izumi’s play is crazy, chaotic, but also cleverly plotted and energetically paced by director Jenny Koons. You’ll be rapt and also occasionally slapped sideways just when you think you’ve settled in. The script is a mold-breaker, a convention-twitter. The only guarantee is hilarity at regular intervals.”

  — Sandy MacDonald, New York Stage Review