Julie Weinberg

Julie Weinberg

JULIE WEINBERG’s Bad Daughter received The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. Face It, a full-length comedy, was featured in the 2019 Actors Studio New Works Festival. Julie’s short pandemic dramedy, Buttercup’s Lament, has been in two recent reading series - part of the Quarantine Series/Dallas and in Open Eye Theater’s short play series and was recently included in Some Scripts Literary...
JULIE WEINBERG’s Bad Daughter received The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. Face It, a full-length comedy, was featured in the 2019 Actors Studio New Works Festival. Julie’s short pandemic dramedy, Buttercup’s Lament, has been in two recent reading series - part of the Quarantine Series/Dallas and in Open Eye Theater’s short play series and was recently included in Some Scripts Literary Magazine. Stay tuned for an animated short based on Buttercup's travails. Among Julie’s award-winning one act comedies are The Eleven O’clock Number, The Teller’s Tale and Fault. You’re Not the Type, commissioned by the Edna Ferber Estate, was part of Five by Ferber produced by NJ Rep in 2018, published by Smith & Kraus. Is It Cold in Here? won Arizona’s Bechdel 2.0 Short Play Prize and will be published by Applause in 2021. Pet Peeves, an evening of short comedies, mostly about cats, had a reading at the Workshop Theater last spring. Julie has been produced by ATHE, The Warner Theater Festival, Ramapo College, Brooklyn’s Gallery Players among others. A founding member of the 9th Floor, a Playwright/Actor Collaborative, proud member of Dramatists Guild, graduate of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Writing for Stage and Screen. Honor Roll, an advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40 just published two collections, plays and monologues, called SHE PERSISTED - and Julie is proud to be among the wonderful writers in both volumes. Available on Amazon. www.Julieweinbergplaywright.com

Plays

  • Bad Daughter by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Lesbian, christmas + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, holiday
    Keyword: Lesbian, christmas, Chanukah, lung cancer, rivalry between siblings, Latinx, African American and Latinx women
    It's nearly Christmas and Maddie is summoned home from Paris to deal with a family in crisis. Her father is sick with a mysterious ailment, her mother hysterical with worry and her angry brother and his irritating girlfriend only make things worse. Her girlfriend’s arrival from Paris turns up the heat on issues that are already at a slow boil. In this comedy about food, family and death, Maddie battles...
    It's nearly Christmas and Maddie is summoned home from Paris to deal with a family in crisis. Her father is sick with a mysterious ailment, her mother hysterical with worry and her angry brother and his irritating girlfriend only make things worse. Her girlfriend’s arrival from Paris turns up the heat on issues that are already at a slow boil. In this comedy about food, family and death, Maddie battles to remain true not only to herself, but to the complex family she both deplores and loves.
  • Face It or The Transmogrification of Eliza Kline by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: reality tv, Face-lift + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, farce, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: reality tv, Face-lift, middle age, New York City, Stage mom, tour guide, Plastic Surgery
    At forty-five and three quarters, Eliza Kline is not a star of stage and screen. She is not happily married with children. Eliza is an also-ran actress/singer who secretly works a tour guide on a double decker bus in New York City. She is desperate to figure out where she went wrong. When her agent gets her into a reality show contest with a prize of a free facelift, she thinks she may have found a way to...
    At forty-five and three quarters, Eliza Kline is not a star of stage and screen. She is not happily married with children. Eliza is an also-ran actress/singer who secretly works a tour guide on a double decker bus in New York City. She is desperate to figure out where she went wrong. When her agent gets her into a reality show contest with a prize of a free facelift, she thinks she may have found a way to have everything she’s been cheated of. All she has to do is give the tour of a lifetime and prove to the surgeon she deserves this second chance. But the course to a free facelift never does run smooth. Between the angry best friend, the troubled and neglected stage mother, and the schmuck boyfriends, of past and present, the path to the big win is littered with problems. In this dark and hyper-real comic fable, we take Eliza’s tour and decide with her what it takes to be a winning female in today’s America.
  • The Eleven O'Clock Number by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: cruise ship, singer + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: cruise ship, singer, waitress, Brooklyn, cats, animal psychologist, Feng shui, Phantom
    After many ominous texts from his wife Gigi, Dan takes a weekend leave from his job as a cruise ship crooner to see if he can head off a marital shipwreck. There is big trouble in Brooklyn. A nearly empty apartment and a female more demanding than his wife make this homecoming a stormy one. Is this marriage sunk?
  • BAD DAUGHTER by Julie Weinberg
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Lesbian, cancer + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, holiday, young audiences
    Keyword: Lesbian, cancer, American Jews, rivalry between adult siblings, dying father, mother/daughter issues
    Maddie lives happily in Paris with her French girlfriend, Gaby, until her mother, Lily, summons her home to New Jersey. Maddie’s father, Abe, is sick with a mysterious ailment and Lily is unraveling quickly. Reluctantly, Maddie returns home to face her hysterical mother, her resentful brother Jeffrey and his tone-deaf girlfriend, Elena. At the top of Act II, Gaby shows up in New Jersey and lights the flame...
    Maddie lives happily in Paris with her French girlfriend, Gaby, until her mother, Lily, summons her home to New Jersey. Maddie’s father, Abe, is sick with a mysterious ailment and Lily is unraveling quickly. Reluctantly, Maddie returns home to face her hysterical mother, her resentful brother Jeffrey and his tone-deaf girlfriend, Elena. At the top of Act II, Gaby shows up in New Jersey and lights the flame under issues past and present that are already at a slow boil. In this darkly funny play about food and family and death, Maddie must battle to remain true to herself and also to the complicated family she loves.
  • Friends from the East by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: Facebook, friends + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale, holiday, young audiences
    Keyword: Facebook, friends, friendship, christmas, mystery visitors
    Olive is flabbergasted when "friends" from her new Facebook account show up at her front door on Christmas Eve seeking shelter. Best friend Mia is less than pleased to find Olive surrounded by new friends when they're supposed to leave for their annual and sacred Xmas theater date. Who are these people and what do they really want? An oddball NYC Xmas is on hand for sure.
  • Blue Room by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: mom, son + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, musical
    Keyword: mom, son, singer, cabaret, wine, monologue, a mother's love
    Faye wants her son Mikey to fall asleep but he's as agitated as she is and Faye must resort to every trick in a Mom's book to lull him to sleep as she ponders her future with him and his missing father.
  • Coco and other Mysteries of the Lower Eastside by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: friendship, girlfriends + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, radio drama, zoom
    Keyword: friendship, girlfriends, cat cafe, COVID, pandemic, Coco Chanel, chinese food
    Vera and Meg were best friends - and then there was Covid. Can they remember their connection and forgive and forget in a very odd little enclave on the Lower Eastside which may or may not be a Cat Cafe?
  • What We Know by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: French Poodle, Feral cat + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, radio drama, romantic comedy, young audiences, zoom
    Keyword: French Poodle, Feral cat, parrot, Talking Animals
    Sarah and Frankie have fallen in love but it takes a crisis with Joey, the sardonic missing parrot and Giselle, a nearly feral cat to finally bring them together and all this just in time for Poppa's return.
  • Buttercup's Lament by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: cats, felines + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, radio drama, young audiences, zoom
    Keyword: cats, felines, COVID, pandemic, lockdown, New York City
    Buttercup, a “big-boned” ginger tabby, snacks obsessively on a large green spider plant when his human mother isn’t home. But these days she’s always home. Buttercup persuades his brother Peanut to concoct a clever scheme to get Mom out of their NYC apartment. But as they begin to understand the dangers outside on the locked down streets, they have to swiftly launch a counter campaign to keep her at home....
    Buttercup, a “big-boned” ginger tabby, snacks obsessively on a large green spider plant when his human mother isn’t home. But these days she’s always home. Buttercup persuades his brother Peanut to concoct a clever scheme to get Mom out of their NYC apartment. But as they begin to understand the dangers outside on the locked down streets, they have to swiftly launch a counter campaign to keep her at home. Can this pair of fierce felines save their human Mom?
  • Pet Peeves by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: cats, dogs + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, parody/spoof, romantic comedy, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: cats, dogs, parrot, Pet Psychic, cat whisperer, sibling rivalry, Robots, cryogenics, futuristic, feral
    From the dying mother who decides to freeze herself and her cat over the objections of her warring daughters, to the pet psychic called upon to save a marriage, to a house full of opinionated dogs, a cat and a parrot and to a not-too-distant future when a six foot tall cat in a tuxedo is the newest available breed to the daring cat lover of 2045, these six comedies ask us to imagine not only the inner lives of...
    From the dying mother who decides to freeze herself and her cat over the objections of her warring daughters, to the pet psychic called upon to save a marriage, to a house full of opinionated dogs, a cat and a parrot and to a not-too-distant future when a six foot tall cat in a tuxedo is the newest available breed to the daring cat lover of 2045, these six comedies ask us to imagine not only the inner lives of pets, but the unusual households in which they live.
  • You're Not the Type by Julie Weinberg
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4–6
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: divas, aging + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, drama, period
    Keyword: divas, aging, 1940, Edna Ferber, Stanislavsky, Broadway
    It’s 1940 and the Great Depression is over, but not for Vivian Lande. After years of Broadway roles in that nearly defunct genre, the “society play”, she desperately seeks her comeback, but even her faithful agent can’t resuscitate her dying career. To make matters worse, her niece Dinah is bitten by the acting bug and manages to find the most bohemian charlatan in New York to teach her. Can she save her...
    It’s 1940 and the Great Depression is over, but not for Vivian Lande. After years of Broadway roles in that nearly defunct genre, the “society play”, she desperately seeks her comeback, but even her faithful agent can’t resuscitate her dying career. To make matters worse, her niece Dinah is bitten by the acting bug and manages to find the most bohemian charlatan in New York to teach her. Can she save her niece, and most importantly herself, from a diva’s most dreaded disease, irrelevance?