Julia Barclay-Morton

Dr. Julia Lee Barclay-Morton is an award-winning writer, director and teacher whose work has been published and produced internationally; she was inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame in 2014. Founding Artistic Director of Apocryphal Theatre in London from 2004-11, she was awarded a practice-as-research PhD in theater and philosophy in 2009 at University of Northampton, UK, which included two of her plays. Her stage and prose writing has been published in printed anthologies and online most notably with Stockholm Review, Ohio Edit and Prentice-Hall. She was offered a playwriting residency at Vermont Studio Center in May 2015, was a finalist for the McKnight National Playwriting Residency in 2013, and most recently her play Shit was chosen by IATI for its 2018 development season and will be given a staged reading in June 2018. She received her BA with High Honors in Theater from Wesleyan University in 1986.

Her plays have been published in anthologies, Plays and Playwrights 2001 ('Word to Your Mama'), Regional Best 2011 ('Besides, you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilization'), Regional Best 2012 ('We live in Financial Times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve'). and in journals include 'Future Worlds - Tricorn Init!' Karawane (U of Minn.) and '13 Minutes: Subliminal Car Music for Sarah' in How2 (online). She developmentally edited Stefan Brecht's book on Richard Foreman, which will be published by Methuen; her interview with Foreman for her Ph.D. was published in The Manifestoes and Essays (TCG). Many of her plays were published in a curated collection on Indie Theater Now until that site was discontinued.

She has taught many courses in devising experimental theater, performance writing and acting in the UK and US, including teaching writing at Fordham University. She has worked as a guest artist at many international universities and conferences and has presented her theatrical techniques (as a writer and director) most recently as a guest writer at the 21st Century Writing Conference at University of Lincoln, UK, alongside Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Tim Crouch and Carol Ann Duffy (2010); given a paper and performance in 'Postdramatic Theatre and the psychic backstage' at Postdramatic Theatre conference at University of London. (2011); and, in NYC, was asked to participate in Theatre as Theory: Theory as Theatre conference at Glasshouse Project (2013).

Additional notable theater awards include a Peggy Ramsay Foundation playwright grant (2008), two Arts Council England awards to produce her plays The Jesus Guy (2006) and Besides, you lose your soul…(2009), an Off-Off Broadway Review award for Word to Your Mama (2001), and a Mabou Mines Resident Artist's Jerome Fellowship (1994).

Her plays have been written about in multiple prestigious journals, most notably by Dr. Kelina Gotman 'Other Possible Worlds Onstage' in PAJ 32(3) (MIT Press), by Dr. Cathy Turner 'Cutting It Up: Fragments and Ruins in Julia Barclay's New York Theater' in Performance Research 7(1), and‘Playing with Postsecular Performance: Julia Lee Barclay, Ansuman Biswas, Traci Kelly, and Kira O'Reilly in conversation with Franc Chamberlain’ in PAJ 31(1).

Education

• PhD The University of Northampton (2004 — 2010)
• Studio Arts Center International (1984 — 1985)
• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD University of Northampton (2004 — 2010)

Companies

• Writer In My Study (2014)
• Writer Editor Teacher Barclay-Morton Editorial & Design (2014)
• Visiting Artist Universities in UK and US (2003)
• Writer, Editor, Coach, Yoga Teacher Julia Barclay-Morton, Author and Coach (1990)
• Writer, director, editor, teacher, performer, researcher, workshop leader Freelance (1990)
• Adjunct Professor Fordham University (2013 — 2017)
• Developmental Editor Freelance (2013 — 2013)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor City University of New York (2011 — 2012)
• Visiting Lecturer University of East London (2010 — 2011)