Julia Marks

Julia is a writer, actor, and theatre-maker currently based in Washington, DC.
She's worked as an actor and playwright with theatres in Charleston, New York, Dublin, and DC. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a BA in Theatre, and later trained at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating, she wrote, produced, and performed in her premiere original work at the Scene and Heard Festival in Dublin, and has since had work produced and workshopped internationally with companies such as Fishamble, an Olivier-award winning Irish theatre company, The Orchard Project, Rorschach Theatre, and Rhizome DC. She is currently a member of the Sisters Freehold Horticulture Writing Cohort.

Scripts

Tofana

by Julia Marks

Cast Size

6—12

Genre

dark comedy,

docudrama/historic,

drama,

horror,

period

In 17th century Italy, women had three options: get married, join a convent, or become a prostitute. Unless, of course, you consider the fourth option:
become a widow.

Giulia Tofana, hand-in-hand with her mother, daughter, and a vast web of women, created an untraceable poison disguised as makeup. Aqua Tofana was behind the murder of 600 men…and the agency of 600 women.

Inspired by an unbelievably true story...

In 17th century Italy, women had three options: get married, join a convent, or become a prostitute. Unless, of course, you consider the fourth option:
become a widow.

Giulia Tofana, hand-in-hand with her mother, daughter, and a vast web of women, created an untraceable poison disguised as makeup. Aqua Tofana was behind the murder of 600 men…and the agency of 600 women.

Inspired by an unbelievably true story, Tofana explores women’s anger, their fear, and their desire to keep loving. In a world without choice, how far will women go to help each other build their collective power?

For How Janelle Monáe Once Made Me Feel

by Julia Marks

Cast Size

3

Genre

comedy,

experimental,

verse

A play about female identities, growing up, online shopping, and how our objects shape us.

For How Janelle Monáe Once Made Me Feel is a celebration of female friendship, and a search for physical connections within digital and isolated space. It explores the emotional realities, unfettered fantasies, and subverted expectations of entering adulthood.

A play about female identities, growing up, online shopping, and how our objects shape us.

For How Janelle Monáe Once Made Me Feel is a celebration of female friendship, and a search for physical connections within digital and isolated space. It explores the emotional realities, unfettered fantasies, and subverted expectations of entering adulthood.

Homing

by Julia Marks

Cast Size

6

Genre

experimental,

movement/physical,

verse

A meditation on leaving and returning, and the role of place in shaping our collective and individual voices.

SEEDS: a conversation between me and my dead fig tree

by Julia Marks

Cast Size

1—10

Genre

experimental

A conversation between person and plant, this script is printed on handmade paper embedded with the seeds of native flower species.

Go out into your garden, your backyard, your place in nature.
Read your script among things that move and change,
Let it take you to your favorite places, let it remind you of the flowers and trees you grew with. Let it ground you in where you are now.
Once you’ve read your script...

A conversation between person and plant, this script is printed on handmade paper embedded with the seeds of native flower species.

Go out into your garden, your backyard, your place in nature.
Read your script among things that move and change,
Let it take you to your favorite places, let it remind you of the flowers and trees you grew with. Let it ground you in where you are now.
Once you’ve read your script, lived with it, breathed with it...
Plant each page separately Somewhere sunny
In the earth
Cover them with 1/8th inch of soil Water them and keep them moist Watch your garden bloom
Watch the bees
And bugs and butterflies
Gather and feast and help us grow.

Cove Creek Boys and Summer Girls

by Julia Marks

Cast Size

2

Genre

experimental,

fable/folktale

Between Ireland and Appalachia, a river flows.

Cove Creek Boys and Summer Girls tells the story of Sam and Summer--born of the same stream, but separated by time and memory.

Through the shared Irish and Southern American traditions of storytelling, ballad singing, and folk music, we explore two worlds separated by distance and connected through a lifetime of history, geography, and culture.

This is not a...

Between Ireland and Appalachia, a river flows.

Cove Creek Boys and Summer Girls tells the story of Sam and Summer--born of the same stream, but separated by time and memory.

Through the shared Irish and Southern American traditions of storytelling, ballad singing, and folk music, we explore two worlds separated by distance and connected through a lifetime of history, geography, and culture.

This is not a historical record, but a collective memory.

Waiting for Iggy Pop

by Julia Marks

Cast Size

7

Genre

dark comedy,

experimental,

fantasy,

verse

A girl waits for something to happen.
Her life is fine, her life is boring. Her life isn’t the way she imagined it would be.
She tries to escape through her fantasies.

The lines between real life and imagining begin to blur.
She waits for life to be more like her fantasies.
She waits for Iggy Pop to save her.

A fantasy of love, punk, and being alive.

A girl waits for something to happen.
Her life is fine, her life is boring. Her life isn’t the way she imagined it would be.
She tries to escape through her fantasies.

The lines between real life and imagining begin to blur.
She waits for life to be more like her fantasies.
She waits for Iggy Pop to save her.

A fantasy of love, punk, and being alive.