Julia Jarcho

Plays by Julia Jarcho	Watch a clip here. Jenny Seaston Stern & Aaron Landsman in American Treasure photo by Rob Strong	American Treasure " 'American Treasure' is an odd, dense, oblique but haunting work... Ms. Jarcho, who also directs, is an extremely clever and bewitching writer and a master of stylized behavior." --Anita Gates, The New York Times, December 9, 2009. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else. Produced by 13P at the Paradise Factory, New York City, Fall 2009 With Aaron Landsman & Jenny Seastone Stern Sets: Jason Simms * Lights: Ben Kato * Sound: Asa Wember * Costumes: Colleen Werthmann Producer: Maria Goyanes * Associate Producer: Rachel Karpf * PSM: Jess Chayes Read the interview with Time Out NY's Helen Shaw here.
The Whole Tree (Electric)
Things start getting strange when everyone has the same dream: the prince is coming back from exile, and it's going to be really scary. While His sister Lex preps for the inevitable coup, dark agents are at work trying to make something else happen. Unproduced. In development under the auspices of the Playwrights Foundation's Resident Playwrights Initiative.
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Take Me Away		A Small Hole
Christine is a teenage poet. Her mom is a porn star. Sylvia Plath, Christine’s favorite writer, invites her to Death’s Doorway to learn how to become a genius. “You’ll have to get rid of that body-- it’s weighing you down. Just sit and think very hard and it will start to fall off." Created and performed by Ami Garmon and Julia Jarcho. Premiere: Festival “Il faut brûler pour briller,” Paris, April 2007 Cast: Ami Garmon, Julia Jarcho Coach: Jared Gradinger Administrative: Elena Polzer	Julia Jarcho & Ami Garmon in Take Me Away (photo by Remo Lotano)	A free adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park; a play about trying to be small in the midst of gross indecency; a theatrical spectacle of devious desire and changing identities around one woman’s box. Produced by Performance Lab 115 at the New York Fringe Festival. Premiere: Dance New Amsterdam, FringeNYC, August 2006 Director: Alice Reagan Cast: Jeff Clarke, Shelley Gershoni, Rebecca Lingafelter, Walker Lewis, Elena Mulroney Dramaturg: Ramona Thomasius Stage Design: Shane LeClair Sound design: Mark Valadez
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All I Do Is Dream Of You		Delmar
Mel and Sarah sleep in a flat with a broken ceiling. Sarah and Mel are special agents in a city wracked by bloody crime. As they follow the gruesome trail, they keep running into each other. Who is guilty? Who is in danger? Everyone? Me? Premiere: Festival “100Grad,” Sophiensaele, Berlin, February 2006 Cast: Ami Garmon, Julia Jarcho Design Consultation: Tal Schachem Administrative: Elena Polzer	(Above: Ilie Paun and Elizabeth Medvedovsky in Delmar)	A little girl runs away from her broken home and moves in with a pair of royal exiles, hoping to find new meaning in their mysterious ways. Meanwhile, her mother and brother become involved in a dangerous plan to change the world. A one-act play in English and Spanish. Premiere: Prenzlkasper, Berlin, October 2005 Director: Julia Jarcho Cast: Julia Jarcho, Elizabeth Medvedovsky, Ilie Paun, Christine Wehner Assistance: Joy Kalu
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The Highwayman		Grammar: A Wittgenstein Play
Bess keeps finding herself in another world: The Inn, a haven for wanderers and vagabonds in a landscape plagued by death and bad weather. There, she awaits the man she's meant for. He's definitely coming –- unless something terrible happens. A play about reading, riding, and going wild, inspired by Alfred Noyes’s ballad. Premiere: The DUMBO Stable (NTUSA), New York, December 2004 Director: Julia Jarcho Cast: Ryan Bronz, Ásta Bennie Hostetter, Young Jean Lee, Zach Samalin, Chime Day Serra, Jonah Westerman Set Design and Music: Harry Kimball Costumes: Ásta Bennie Hostetter New! The Highwayman published in The Best American Short Plays 2005-2006, ed. Barbara Parisi (Applause, 2008); click here to buy the book.		A theatro-grammatical “Investigation” of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen. Unproduced. Alexis Soloski of the Village Voice says: "It’s the rare work about Wittgenstein that excites me, but here’s the exception." You can read Wittgenstein HERE.
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Nursery		Return to homepage...
Jenny and John are smart kids. They live in Manhattan with their mother and eat salad every night. But they can’t stop thinking about America’s latest school shooting-- and what it would be like to make friends with the killer. Premiere: 2001 Young Playwrights Festival, Young Playwrights Inc., Cherry Lane Alternative, New York, Fall 2001-Winter 2002 Director: Brett W. Reynolds Cast: Shannon Emerick, Cynthia Hood, Brad Malow, Geoffrey Molloy, Robin L. Taylor Dramaturg: Kate Moira Ryan Published in Rush Hour: II; click HERE to buy the issue.
NYTimes review of festival
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