Julie Hébert

A hiker in search of solitude discovers an injured woman face down in a ditch -- and is forced to spend the night on the mountain with her, facing demons both internal and external. A chance encounter that changes both lives.

A Southern white woman shows up at the home of an African American man in Chicago, claiming to be his half-sister; both are forced to confront a shared past hidden among the degraded memories of a demented old woman. A play about race and family.

A biology professor at a small university is in danger of losing her job and her mind. Torn between a ferocious dying mother, a secretive teen-age daughter, and an intimate drama with the ghost of her husband… Christine is in danger of losing herself completely. A play about a strong woman who’s given too much of herself away.

A whispered opera of the mind. The five characters represent different aspects of one woman’s mind as she falls asleep one night after a confusing, humiliating encounter with her male employer earlier that day, which dredges up a powerful, suppressed trauma.

A movement play opening with a strange dream from which a woman awakes in a panic, triggering a night of catastrophic thinking, manic housecleaning, deep reflection, regretful phone calls and hare-brained plans. An insomniac extravaganza.

A meditation on the quixotic existence of the neglected Los Angeles River, “Touch the Water” was staged on the banks of the river itself, and incorporated elements of its ecology, history, and the history of the people who have lived by it, to create a stirring elegy of loss, as well as a hopeful call to rebirth.

An adaptation of the Joan of Arc story, the play follows the brief and mercurial story of Jeannette LeBlanc, a fifteen-year-old girl in modern day southern Louisiana. A spectral Nun, a drunken Senator, the Catholic Church, and MTV come together for the exploitation of a true believer…with explosive results.

Set one hot night in south Louisiana, July 1961. The play focuses on Ruby Delacroix, a powerful but lonely black woman who owns her own bar, the “Bucket of Blood.” On this Saturday night, the regular singer is replaced with Billy Dupre, a white man with a great voice and a bad marriage. Ruby and Dupre clash and spark and finally find a little comfort in each other’s arms. Is the aftermath worth it?

TRUE BEAUTIES is the story of a southern Louisiana woman’s life and the people she loves and loses, told through memories in the moment of her death. The play spans forty years. An everyday passing of an everyday soul.

A brief, brutal satire about race, gender and the hierarchy of power in America. Four people and a dog compete viciously in a game of Musical Chairs. Sojourner Truth transcends the game.