Julia Byrne

I tell stories primarily through plays, but I've never met an art form I didn't like - no genre is safe from me. I write about nature, hunger, suspended reality, feminine and queer experiences. Anything with tenderness and fire. Check out my work at juliabyrneartist.com, and if you're ever in Atlanta, let's meet up and talk plays!

I tell stories primarily through plays, but I've never met an art form I didn't like - no genre is safe from me. I write about nature, hunger, suspended reality, feminine and queer experiences. Anything with tenderness and fire. Check out my work at juliabyrneartist.com, and if you're ever in Atlanta, let's meet up and talk plays!

Scripts

To Serve the Hive

by Julia Byrne

2
Cast Size
5—8
Genre
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
political

The world is no longer plentiful, and the hive is growing restless. A vain, aging queen takes comfort with an advisor who is secretly developing individual selfhood. Will love, starvation, or revolution weight out? This play is a queer political thriller and a climate change drama.

The world is no longer plentiful, and the hive is growing restless. A vain, aging queen takes comfort with an advisor who is secretly developing individual selfhood. Will love, starvation, or revolution weight out? This play is a queer political thriller and a climate change drama.

How I Can Warn You in Four Easy Steps

by Julia Byrne

Cast Size
1
Genre
biography,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
immersive,
movement/physical,
political

People love easy steps. Every diet has them. So maybe Joules can use them to warn you about the cruel, perfect goddess who threatens total control over her. But there’s only so much Joules can say before the specter decides to take the stage Herself. Joules recruits the audience to unravel familiar stories into a foreboding picture of the intoxicating quest for perfection. “How I Can Warn You in Four Easy Steps”...

People love easy steps. Every diet has them. So maybe Joules can use them to warn you about the cruel, perfect goddess who threatens total control over her. But there’s only so much Joules can say before the specter decides to take the stage Herself. Joules recruits the audience to unravel familiar stories into a foreboding picture of the intoxicating quest for perfection. “How I Can Warn You in Four Easy Steps” is a tense, earnest play of how anorexia is not just a personal addiction, but a systemic, profitable destruction.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DRE4M

by Julia Byrne

Cast Size
4
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
experimental,
immersive,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy,
verse

The classic Midsummer abridged and adapted for only four actors. Full of audience interaction, and perfect for outdoor productions. A rollicking, mad dash of Shakespeare.

The classic Midsummer abridged and adapted for only four actors. Full of audience interaction, and perfect for outdoor productions. A rollicking, mad dash of Shakespeare.

Day

by Julia Byrne

Cast Size
3
Genre
adaptation,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
fantasy

An astronomer left for dead as a human sacrifice is saved by the winged god of love.

An astronomer left for dead as a human sacrifice is saved by the winged god of love.