Julieta Vitullo

Julieta Vitullo

Julieta Vitullo is a Seattle-based bilingual writer, playwright and dramaturge born and raised in Argentina. She holds an MA in English and a PhD in Spanish from Rutgers. She’s the protagonist and co-script writer of the award-winning documentary La forma exacta de las islas.
Her literary work was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Into the Void, The Normal School, The Fabulist and...
Julieta Vitullo is a Seattle-based bilingual writer, playwright and dramaturge born and raised in Argentina. She holds an MA in English and a PhD in Spanish from Rutgers. She’s the protagonist and co-script writer of the award-winning documentary La forma exacta de las islas.
Her literary work was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Into the Void, The Normal School, The Fabulist and Hawaii Pacific Review, and is forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review. She’s also an alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop.
She’s a resident playwright and dramaturge at eSeTeatro, and six of her plays have been presented in Seattle, including the most recent Fermín’s Great Book of Dreams, a fantasy play for all ages. Her play Two Big Black Bags, about a veteran of the Malvinas/Falklands War will be produced in Seattle in 2023.
In spring of 2022, she launched PoemasEternos, a typewriter poetry and art project (www.poemaseternos.com).

Plays

  • Two Big Black Bags by Julieta Vitullo
    Cast: 
    7–10
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    Genre: drama, political + 2 more
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    Keyword: war veteran, falkland islands war + 6 more
    Genre: drama, political, tragedy, verse
    Keyword: war veteran, falkland islands war, malvinas war, irish, argentine, combat trauma, Latinx actors, Latinx experience
    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.
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  • Fermín's Great Book of Dreams by Julieta Vitullo
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: tooth fairy, coming of age + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fantasy, movement/physical, musical, verse, young audiences
    Keyword: tooth fairy, coming of age, coming of age in a world of magical realism, grandma, El Raton Pérez, Latinx, Latinx family, Latinx experience
    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).
  • The Cuckoo Clock by Julieta Vitullo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: cuckoo clock, inventor + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fantasy
    Keyword: cuckoo clock, inventor, 17th Century, black forest, invention, 18th century clockmaker
     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.
  • Cornelia's Visitors by Julieta Vitullo
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: artificial intelligence, Artificial Creativity + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, political, science fiction, tragedy, zoom
    Keyword: artificial intelligence, Artificial Creativity, World War II, Spanish Civil War, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Oedipus Rex
    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.
  • If a Tree Falls by Julieta Vitullo
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Chronic Illness, birds + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Chronic Illness, birds, crow, Pacific Northwest History, nurse, new age
    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
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 3 more
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    Keyword: science, geology + 5 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fable/folktale, political, tragedy
    Keyword: science, geology, dreams, Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous, South America
    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.
  • About Marilyn by Julieta Vitullo
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Italian American, siblings + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Italian American, siblings, New Jersey, gambling, magical realism, Italian immigrant, Inheritance, american race relations
    It's the early eighties in a New Jersey suburb and Marilyn, a nineteen-year old woman in a wheelchair, lives quietly with big dreams. While her domineering brothers feud over the family inheritance, Marilyn gambles on an impossible way out.
    Will her rare imagination be her strength as she tries to change her destiny?
  • Tax Date by Julieta Vitullo
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: love, loss + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: love, loss, coping with grief, accepting death, death of a child, taxes, couples
    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
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: berta cáceres, Honduras + 8 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: berta cáceres, Honduras, climate activism, climate change, anthropocene, flood myth, myth, environmental activism, Latinx actors, Latinx experience
    A group of environmentalists fight to protect their land and water from the pillage of corporations posing as "green."