Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Julia Jarcho is a playwright and director and a scholar of modern theater, literature, and critical theory. She puts on plays with her NYC company, Minor Theater. Shows include Pathetic (Abrons Arts Center 2019), Grimly Handsome (Incubator 2013/ Royal Court Theatre 2017), The Terrifying (Abrons 2017), Every Angel is Brutal (Clubbed Thumb 2016), Nomads (Incubator 2014), Dreamless Land (New York City Players/Abrons 2011), and American Treasure (13P 2009). Awards include an OBIE for Best New American Play (Grimly Handsome) and a Doris Duke Impact Award. Her book Minor Theater: Three Plays is available from 53rd State and her critical writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Modern Drama, Textual Practice (forthcoming) and in her book Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She is the Head of Playwriting at Brown.