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Julie Hébert is a
writer/director who started in San Francisco with the Eureka Theater, the
Magic Theater and Intersection for the Arts, then went on to work throughout
the country with the Los Angeles Theater Center, San Diego Rep, Steppenwolf,
Provincetown Playhouse, Circle Rep, La MaMa and many others. She was a
founding member of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a long-time member
of the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival. She also served as Artistic
Director of Theater at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans for four
years, and is a proud member of Alternate ROOTS.
Her plays include: Abe Lincoln's Dog , The Knee Desires the Dirt, Almost
Asleep, True Beauties, St. Joan and the Dancing Sickness, and Ruby's Bucket
of Blood, which she also adapted into a film for Showtime, starring Angela
Bassett. She is working on an untitled new play.
Julie wrote the screenplays for Female Perversions (October Films),
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay LeTourneau Story (USA), and for the upcoming
film Lying Awake, which was adapted from the novel by Mark Salzman.
In 2002, Julie received a Peabody Award for In Their Own Words, a
documentary film of interviews with survivors of the 9/11 attacks in New
York. She has received grants from the NEA, TCG, and the Rockefeller
Foundation for writing, directing, and inter-disciplinary arts. Playwriting
honors include the Pen Award for Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, first
runner-up, the Bay Area Critics Circle Best Play and several Drama-Logues.
Her plays are published by Dramatic Publishing, Plays in Process, and in the
Best Of The West anthology. Currently, Julie is writing for the television
show, NUMB3RS, developing a new series of her own, and working to produce
and direct her screenplay, Proud Flesh.
ST. JOAN AND THE DANCING
SICKNESS
Drama
6M, 4W
Multiple Set
An adaptation of the Joan of Arc story, the play follows the brief and
mercurial story of Jeannette LeBlanc, a fifteen-year-old girl in modern
day southern Louisiana. A spectral Nun, a drunken Senator, the Catholic
Church, and MTV come together for the exploitation of a true believer…with
explosive results.
Readings at A.S.K., Women's Project, and New Dramatists.
THE KNEE DESIRES THE DIRT
Drama
2M, 3W
Flexible set
Christine Abril, a biology professor at a small university, is in danger
of losing her job. Split and distracted by an intimate drama with her dead
husband, a ferocious live-in mother, and a secretive daughter
experimenting with sex, Christine can barely show up for work. How does a
person live with memory, with family, with herself? How does she know when
to let go?
"The play is lively and charming." –New York Times
"Curious, spirited, irreverent." --Village Voice
Readings at Seven Stages, Atlanta; A.S.K. Theater Projects. Workshop
Productions at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Women's Project. Premiere at
the Women's Project.
RUBY’S BUCKET OF BLOOD
Composed by Mark Bingham
Drama with Music (Ten songs)
2M, 3W, Small Musical Combo, and Extras
Unit set
Set one hot night in south Louisiana, July 1961. The play focuses on Ruby
Delacroix, a powerful but lonely black woman who owns her own bar, the
"Bucket of Blood." On this Saturday night, the regular singer is replaced
with Billy Dupre, a white man with a great voice and a bad marriage. Ruby
and Dupre clash and spark and finally find a little comfort in each
other's arms. Is the aftermath worth it?
"Hot and spicy. A triumph." –Los Angeles Times
Premiere at San Diego Rep Production at Contemporary Arts Center, New
Orleans. Film: Showtime, 2001.
ALMOST ASLEEP
Experimental Drama
5W
Environmental Set
A whispered opera of the mind. The five characters represent different
aspects of one woman's mind as she falls asleep one night after a
confusing, humiliating encounter with her male employer earlier that day.
In this semi-conscious state she battles with herself, and almost
accidentally triggers the release of long-repressed emotion.
"Masterfully constructed." --The Bay Guardian
"The writing is powerful, shocking, candid." —Variety
Workshop Production: Re.Cher.Chez. Premiere: Intersection for the Arts,
San Francisco. Productions: Padua Hills Playwrights Festival; Seven
Stages, Atlanta; Undermain, Dallas; Sage Productions, NYC.
TRUE BEAUTIES
Drama
1M, 5W
Unit Set
TRUE BEAUTIES is the story of a southern Louisiana woman's life and the
people she loves and loses, told through memories in the moment of her
death. The play spans forty years. It is an everyday passing of a
beautiful, everyday soul.
"A treasure." --Bay Guardian
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival. Premiere at Magic Theatre.
Productions in Seattle,Vancouver, Dallas, & various colleges.
DIED SUDDENLY
Collaboration with Deborah Slater
Performance Text
2W, or 1W
Flexible Set
Short text concerning the death of a young woman and how her spirit takes
over the body of her manicurist.
Moca Laney College Theatre in Los Angeles.
BENEATH THE THIN SKIN
Performance Text
1W
Short text concerned with melting a frozen heart.
Premiere at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.
ABE LINCOLN’S DOG
Strange Short Play, 15 Minutes
2M, 2W, and a person to play the dog
Simple Set
Absurdist play exploring racism in America—featuring Sojourner Truth and
Abe Lincoln's dog, among others.
Developed in Paula Vogel's Los Angeles Boot camp. Premiered at Circle
Rising, Los Angeles.