Julieta Vitullo

Julieta Vitullo is a Seattle-based bilingual writer, playwright and typewriter artist born and raised in Argentina. Her novel La huella de tu nombre (“The Imprint of Your Name”) won the University of Mexico in San Antonio’s First Prize for a Novel Written in Spanish in the United States and is forthcoming in 2026 with Arte Público Press. She’s the author of the book Islas Imaginadas (2012), about the fictions written in the aftermath of the Malvinas/Falklands War, and the protagonist and co-script writer of the award-winning documentary film La forma exacta de las islas (2014). Her work has appeared in Into the Void, The Fabulist, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Massachusetts Review and elsewhere, and was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s a resident playwright at eSe Teatro, and her...

Julieta Vitullo is a Seattle-based bilingual writer, playwright and typewriter artist born and raised in Argentina. Her novel La huella de tu nombre (“The Imprint of Your Name”) won the University of Mexico in San Antonio’s First Prize for a Novel Written in Spanish in the United States and is forthcoming in 2026 with Arte Público Press. She’s the author of the book Islas Imaginadas (2012), about the fictions written in the aftermath of the Malvinas/Falklands War, and the protagonist and co-script writer of the award-winning documentary film La forma exacta de las islas (2014). Her work has appeared in Into the Void, The Fabulist, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Massachusetts Review and elsewhere, and was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s a resident playwright at eSe Teatro, and her plays have been read and produced in and around Seattle, including Fermín’s Great Book of Dreams, Two Big Black Bags and Cornelia’s Visitors. Her devised solo piece Don’t Call IT a Journey, is currently in development with Chilean actor Iveliz Martel and will open in September at University Heights.

Scripts

Cornelia's Visitors

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

Cornelia is an advanced operating system working within the Manhattan home of Isabel Inchausti, a bestselling novelist whose career has seen better days. Cornelia seems content to spend her time fulfilling Isabel’s frivolous requests until three enigmatic visitors fall out of one of Isabel’s novels. As the visitors’ pre-World War II backstories collide with the all-access Information Age, Cornelia launches a...

Cornelia is an advanced operating system working within the Manhattan home of Isabel Inchausti, a bestselling novelist whose career has seen better days. Cornelia seems content to spend her time fulfilling Isabel’s frivolous requests until three enigmatic visitors fall out of one of Isabel’s novels. As the visitors’ pre-World War II backstories collide with the all-access Information Age, Cornelia launches a plan to transform her humble existence into something much grander. Cornelia’s Visitors explores the meaning of creation, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the blessings (and curses) of self-knowledge.
Two scripts of this play exist: the first, pre pandemic, written for the stage; the second, an adaptation for Zoom.

Fermín's Great Book of Dreams

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

With a cast of characters that includes a mouse in a suit, a tired seagull, a studious cow and a sweet potato queen, eSe Teatro’s Fermín’s Great Book of Dreams, an original play by local playwright Julieta Vitullo, tells the story of a young boy who struggles with belief when he doesn’t receive a visit from Ratón Pérez, a mouse that visits children after they lose a tooth and exchanges the tooth for a gift. The...

With a cast of characters that includes a mouse in a suit, a tired seagull, a studious cow and a sweet potato queen, eSe Teatro’s Fermín’s Great Book of Dreams, an original play by local playwright Julieta Vitullo, tells the story of a young boy who struggles with belief when he doesn’t receive a visit from Ratón Pérez, a mouse that visits children after they lose a tooth and exchanges the tooth for a gift. The event sends the mouse and his friends off on a quest to discover why children’s wishes are getting lost. 
The story’s magical premise and quirky characters will certainly captivate children, but it will resonate with adults too as we all find ourselves navigating the uncertain terrain of the continued pandemic together in our daily lives, looking for a little magic and a little normal in the small graces. (The Seattle Times).

Marilyn's Window

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

It’s the early eighties in a New Jersey suburb and Marilyn Romano spends most of her time alone in
her wheelchair tinkering with numbers. As her domineering Italian American brothers fight over the family’s inheritance, Marilyn develops an uncanny power to secretly transform her confines. Underneath the dysfunctional family drama, a world of magic emerges.

It’s the early eighties in a New Jersey suburb and Marilyn Romano spends most of her time alone in
her wheelchair tinkering with numbers. As her domineering Italian American brothers fight over the family’s inheritance, Marilyn develops an uncanny power to secretly transform her confines. Underneath the dysfunctional family drama, a world of magic emerges.

Two Big Black Bags

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

James, an Argentine veteran of the Malvinas/Falklands War, wakes one morning to a big surprise in his living room: two big black bags containing ten million dollars. Determined to turn his life around, James embarks on an adventure from Seattle to South America. But is he willing to face the ghosts of his past in order to transform his future?
Based on an overlooked but deeply significant moment in Latin...

James, an Argentine veteran of the Malvinas/Falklands War, wakes one morning to a big surprise in his living room: two big black bags containing ten million dollars. Determined to turn his life around, James embarks on an adventure from Seattle to South America. But is he willing to face the ghosts of his past in order to transform his future?
Based on an overlooked but deeply significant moment in Latin American history, this new fast-paced drama by Julieta Vitullo draws on music, movement, and magical realism to craft a universal story about the devastating effects of violence and the long and winding road to healing and redemption.

The Cuckoo Clock

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

 A 17th century inventor in the Black Forest is challenged by his creation to let go of time.
Two slightly different scripts exist, one pre pandemic and one made for Zoom.

 A 17th century inventor in the Black Forest is challenged by his creation to let go of time.
Two slightly different scripts exist, one pre pandemic and one made for Zoom.

If a Tree Falls

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

A sanitarium somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. A patient with a tic disorder, a strict nurse and a crow who visits them.

A sanitarium somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. A patient with a tic disorder, a strict nurse and a crow who visits them.

Iguazu

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

One location has haunted Nora since she was six: Her visits to the Iguazú Falls have come to symbolize everything she’s gained and lost since she left her home country to be a geology professor in the States. Engaged to an American-born academic, orphaned by her family and by language itself, Nora struggles to master lucid dreaming in order to navigate the turbulent waters of a recent trauma. Now, with the...

One location has haunted Nora since she was six: Her visits to the Iguazú Falls have come to symbolize everything she’s gained and lost since she left her home country to be a geology professor in the States. Engaged to an American-born academic, orphaned by her family and by language itself, Nora struggles to master lucid dreaming in order to navigate the turbulent waters of a recent trauma. Now, with the help of a serpent parrot god, Nora must walk the blurry line between reality and dream, land and abyss, history and myth to find home again.

Tax Date

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

A kitchen a night. A husband and a wife work tirelessly on their taxes a few days before the due date. This play explores what happens to love when a couple must face extreme circumstances—and no, it's not about the taxes.

A kitchen a night. A husband and a wife work tirelessly on their taxes a few days before the due date. This play explores what happens to love when a couple must face extreme circumstances—and no, it's not about the taxes.

Keepers of the River

by Julieta Vitullo

Synopsis

A group of environmentalists fight to protect their land and water from the pillage of corporations posing as "green."

A group of environmentalists fight to protect their land and water from the pillage of corporations posing as "green."