Crossing Jerusalem
Julia Pascal
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PLAYWRIGHT/ THEATRE DIRECTOR AND SCHOLAR
Julia began her theatre career as an actor. She performed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, The Royal Shakespeare Company and for BBC Television and radio. Films include The Hiding Place and, the independent prize-winning feature, Ham and The Piper.
Her dramas are widely produced and published. They include The Holocaust Trilogy, The Yiddish Queen Lear, St Joan and Woman In The Moon. Crossing Jerusalem was premiered in German at the Karlsruhe Staatstheater translated by Thomas Huber. Her latest volume is Political Plays. Oberon Books, Faber and Samuel French (Inc) publish her dramas.
As a theatre director she has worked in London and in Europe. In the USA her work has been seen at the Lincoln Centre’s Director’s Lab and the Theatre for the New City.
Freelance journalism includes The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, The New Statesman, The Financial Times, City Limits, New Society, The Jewish Chronicle, BBC Radio.
She works as a Theatre Professor at St Lawrence University’s Study Abroad Program and teaches M.A Creative Writing at City University.
Awards include a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship, A BBC Alfred Bradley BBC Award, Moondance and she was a finalist in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Award of Excellence in Playwriting. Julia was nominated for the 2017 Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award.
Currently Julia is Research Fellow in the English Department, King’s College, London University.
Her next London premiere will be Blueprint Medea in 2019. She is currently writing a new play about Hannah Arendt, Charlotte Salomon and Eva Daube set in France 1940.
