JULIE WEINBERG is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City.  Julie’s plays include Bad Daughter, Face it, Starring America and Amor Platonicus.  Among her numerous award-winning short plays are The Eleven O’Clock Number, The Teller’s Tale, Free Association, Friends from the East and Fault.

Julie received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting for Bad Daughter.  You're Not the Type, based on an Edna Ferber short story was featured in the Five by Ferber Festival at New Jersey Repertory in 2018 and in 2019 "Is It Cold in here?" won short play division of Bechdel Test 2.0 in Arizona.  Pandemic productions took place on Zoom in Dallas, Albany and Toronto of her short comedy, Buttercup’s Lament. Bad Daughter was twice zoomed during 20-21 and featured Mary Testa and Frank Wood, both Tony winners. Julie’s work has been produced and/or developed by NJ Rep, The Actors Studio, ATHE, Emergence Theatre, Short & Sweet, Create Theater, The Warner Theater Festival, Ramapo College New Plays Festival, Brooklyn’s Gallery Players and Spokane’s KYRS Radio. 

She is currently adapting her award-winning play, Bad Daughter, for the screen and collecting collaborators for her first animated project, based on her short comedy, Buttercup’s Lament.  Short & Sweet Hollywood featured "Is It Cold in here?" as a finalist in its most recent festival in October 2022.

She is a co-writer of DESERTER, a feature film directed by Martin Huberty and starring Tom Hardy.  Before becoming a playwright, Julie performed as an actress and singer in New York and around the country.  She is a graduate of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Writing for Stage and Screen, was a Guest Artist at the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

BIG NEWS!! Buttercup’s Lament has just been awarded a $10,000 grant from NYS Council of the Arts! We are thrilled to see that this animated short has a future! Stay tuned for our animatic! Follow along with my journey on social media (@buttercupslament) and through my blog page!