Julie McKee
Ensemble Member
Julie grew up in New Zealand, is now a citizen of the US and has made her home in NYC. Julie began her playwriting career at EST with Ron’s Garden (EST New Voices, later produced at Synchronicity Space.) Her most recent production is The Sleeper Awakens (HB Playwrights Foundation), also nominated for an Arnold Weissberger Award. Other plays include: Play By Ear (HBPF); Free Ascent (nominated for a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); The Adventures of Amy Bock (Yale Repertory Theatre); Get It While You Can (Yale Summer Cabaret); Dig ‘n Arch (Yale Cabaret); Invitation To A Funeral (EST, Marathon); A Backward Glance (EST Marathon); The ‘Far-Flung (EST Marathon); A Farewell To Mum (EST Marathon); Hope; Millennium Madness; The Sleeper Awakens; Aftermath; Haere Mai Ki Aotearoa; Jill On A Recliner, Reading; and The Daffodils (all HBPF Summer Short Play Festival). Julie’s plays have also been performed regionally and in New Zealand. She is the recipient of Fellowships from NYFA; Sundance Playwrights Lab; MacDowell Colony, VCCA, St. James Center for Creativity in Malta; the Truman Capote and Eugene O’Neill Scholarships from Yale School of Drama; Theatre Emory at Emory University; and the recipient of the Silver Medal awarded by EST for contributions of theatrical excellence to EST Marathon and American Theatre. Julie has been a finalist for the Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship a number of times… Her plays are published by Smith & Kraus and Playscripts.com. Fringe Benefits was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology/EST Project. She is a proud member of EST and the EST Playwright Unit; DGA, AEA/SAG/AFTRA. Julie loves to teach playwriting and does so at HB Studio.