Julie Jensen has written more than 30 plays, all of which have been professionally produced. A Utah native, she holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Wayne State University. Having taught playwriting as a guest at more than a dozen colleges and universities, she was a professor of theatre at Saint Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame and directed the graduate playwriting program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She now makes her home in Salt Lake City where she works with three theatres: Salt Lake Acting Company, Plan-B Theatre, and Pygmalion Theatre.
Jensen has written more than 30 plays, all of which have been professionally produced.
Pygmalion Theatre Company’s upcoming production is Mountain Meadows, a play by Debora Threedy exploring one of the most violent and controversial episodes in Utah and Latter-day Saint history. The play weaves together the stories of two women: Nita, granddaughter of one of the perpetrators of the massacre, and […]
Why would a writer like Harvey Fierstein, author of plays like Torchsong Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and Kinky Boots, write a one-woman show about the New York politician Bella Abzug? Look at when it was written: 2016, the year Trump was elected president. Fierstein was influenced, he […]
