JULIAN SHEPPARD

Julian Sheppard's plays include Buicks (Underwood Theater, two Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Play), Los Angeles (Flea Theater), Love and Happiness (Barrington Stage), and Skin & Bones (part of stageFARM’s Vengeance at the Cherry Lane Theatre). Other plays have been produced in New York at Soho Rep, Miranda Theatre, Blue Heron Arts Center, Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Juilliard, The Cherry Lane, MCC Performance Lab, New York Performance Works, and Nada. His work has been developed at numerous theaters, including New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage & Film, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC, WPA, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and the Workhouse Theatre. His plays have been produced regionally, in England and South Africa. Julian has been a resident at MacDowell, the Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. He has twice received the Le Comte de Nouy Award and is the Susan Lucci of the Heidemann Award, having been a finalist five times. Julian has also written for and developed numerous shows for ESPN. He is a member of MCC Theatre’s Playwrights Coalition, The Writer’s Group and is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights program at the Juilliard School.

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