Julia Fisher

Julia Fisher

Julia Fisher (she/her) is a playwright and intimacy director whose work has been seen in professional theatres throughout Cleveland, Akron, Chicago, Knoxville, and beyond. Julia has had original works commissioned, developed, and/or produced by Rubber City Theatre, Seat of the Pants, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Local, Radio on the Lake Theatre, First Take Co., BorderLight Fringe Festival, the...
Julia Fisher (she/her) is a playwright and intimacy director whose work has been seen in professional theatres throughout Cleveland, Akron, Chicago, Knoxville, and beyond. Julia has had original works commissioned, developed, and/or produced by Rubber City Theatre, Seat of the Pants, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Local, Radio on the Lake Theatre, First Take Co., BorderLight Fringe Festival, the Twinsburg Public Library, and Eclectic Full Contact Theatre. She has been a playwright-in-residence at both Radio on the Lake Theatre and Spark! Theatre 4 Youth, and she is in her sixth year of membership with the Young Playwrights Collective. She is a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the BorderLight Fringe Festival Producers’ Choice Award, and the Near West Theatre Emerging Artist Award, and she and her two collaborators were named 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalists for Musical Theater for their work on a new musical about Amelia Earhart. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Plays

  • Things Needing Explanation
    *Winner, Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022*

    Jacklean is driving her whip-smart teenage granddaughter Georgia to her house for the weekend when they decide to play Things Needing Explanation - a game from Georgia’s childhood where the two try to outsmart each other with made-up crime scenes. But when the invented crime begins to have eerie parallels to the real world, Georgia...
    *Winner, Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022*

    Jacklean is driving her whip-smart teenage granddaughter Georgia to her house for the weekend when they decide to play Things Needing Explanation - a game from Georgia’s childhood where the two try to outsmart each other with made-up crime scenes. But when the invented crime begins to have eerie parallels to the real world, Georgia and Jacklean must unite their love of murder mysteries and each other to solve the case and save their family.
  • Hyde
    A modern-day feminist retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Hyde is an explosion of female rage, freedom, and power.

    Jackie, a young Black psychopharmacologist, has developed a drug called Hyde that allows women and femmes to access the parts of themselves repressed by society: pleasure, liberation, certainty, fury. After losing funding for a clinical...
    A modern-day feminist retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Hyde is an explosion of female rage, freedom, and power.

    Jackie, a young Black psychopharmacologist, has developed a drug called Hyde that allows women and femmes to access the parts of themselves repressed by society: pleasure, liberation, certainty, fury. After losing funding for a clinical trial, Jackie decides to take Hyde on her own – and her group of best friends decide to take it with her. Uninhibited and primal, this adaptation explores what could happen if women were granted access to their rage.
  • Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
    *Winner, Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022*

    Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk is perhaps the most brilliant detective mind of her time, but the “lads” of Scotland Yard have a hard time recognizing that. In their very first adventure, Lady Molly and her Watson-esque partner Mary Granard are called in as a last resort to solve a seemingly unsolvable mystery. Based on the 1910 story by...
    *Winner, Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022*

    Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk is perhaps the most brilliant detective mind of her time, but the “lads” of Scotland Yard have a hard time recognizing that. In their very first adventure, Lady Molly and her Watson-esque partner Mary Granard are called in as a last resort to solve a seemingly unsolvable mystery. Based on the 1910 story by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (who also famously wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel), this classic Edwardian detective story will thrill anyone who enjoys that one famous British sleuth… oh, what was his name again?
  • Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: The Murder at Mathis Café
    A man poisoned by hot chocolate. A unidentified woman in a large hat. A judgemental aunt. Two gossiping servants. A stunning foreign woman with a not-so-secret grudge. All ingredients for a mystery that only Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk and Mary Granard can solve.

    Lady Molly is perhaps the most brilliant detective mind of the early 1900s, but the “lads” of Scotland Yard have a hard time accepting...
    A man poisoned by hot chocolate. A unidentified woman in a large hat. A judgemental aunt. Two gossiping servants. A stunning foreign woman with a not-so-secret grudge. All ingredients for a mystery that only Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk and Mary Granard can solve.

    Lady Molly is perhaps the most brilliant detective mind of the early 1900s, but the “lads” of Scotland Yard have a hard time accepting that. After cracking the seemingly unsolvable case of the murder at Ninescore, Lady Molly and her Watson-esque partner Mary Granard are placed in charge of a headline-making London murder.
  • Befana the Christmas Witch
    Based on a beloved Italian folktale, Befana the Christmas Witch features four young Italian sisters who are devising a musical about Befana to perform for their family for the holidays. This silly, whimsical, fun-for-the-whole-family tale is filled with music, sisterly love, and the magic of theatre.
  • Tatterhood
    Tatterhood and Sunniva think they understand why their mother never lets them leave their castle. But when the twin princesses set out on a quest to rescue their kidnapped goat, they learn there is much more to the story than the Queen let on. Magic and danger lurk in the forest as the sisters encounter conniving trolls, condescending townspeople, a kick-lining witch, and nefarious princes… all of whom force...
    Tatterhood and Sunniva think they understand why their mother never lets them leave their castle. But when the twin princesses set out on a quest to rescue their kidnapped goat, they learn there is much more to the story than the Queen let on. Magic and danger lurk in the forest as the sisters encounter conniving trolls, condescending townspeople, a kick-lining witch, and nefarious princes… all of whom force the sheltered girls to confront how the outside world really sees them. Featuring original songs and daring swordplay, Tatterhood is a reimagining of a Norwegian fairy tale about sisterhood, identity, and trust in oneself.
  • Skyler's Storybook Adventure
    Characters popping in and out of different “windows” actually makes sense in this heartwarming written-for-the-virtual-space adventure for the whole family. 10-year-old Skyler can’t wait to show off their newest invention at the Ohio Invention Fair until a flood traps them at home. When they make a desperate wish to escape, they suddenly find themselves able to talk to the characters in books. Can Rapunzel,...
    Characters popping in and out of different “windows” actually makes sense in this heartwarming written-for-the-virtual-space adventure for the whole family. 10-year-old Skyler can’t wait to show off their newest invention at the Ohio Invention Fair until a flood traps them at home. When they make a desperate wish to escape, they suddenly find themselves able to talk to the characters in books. Can Rapunzel, Merlin, and Long John Silver help Skyler get to the Invention Fair in time? Join Skyler and their trusty Teddy in a race against time filled with science, magic, and memorable characters as Skyler learns what being an inventor is really about.
  • VOICEMAIL (a one-minute radio play)
    In this one-minute (or thereabouts) radio play, a high-stakes family drama plays out over one man's voicemail.
  • TIME (a one-minute radio play)
    In this one-minute (or thereabouts) radio play, two people race through time to escape whatever is hunting them.