Julia Jarcho is a playwright and theater artist and a scholar of literature, theater, and critical theory. Her work across disciplines tends to focus on fantasies about writing itself, often in relation to pleasure, violence, and theatrical performance. She is the author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (University of Chicago, 2024) and Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as the collection Minor Theater: Three Plays (53rd State, 2017). Her play Grimly Handsome won a 2013 Obie Award for Best New American Play. Her other plays include Marie It’s Time (2022), Pathetic (2019), The Terrifying (2017), Every Angel Is Brutal (2016), Nomads (2014), and Dreamless Land (2011); they have been produced by her New York-based company Minor Theater, the Royal Court Theatre, and Clubbed Thumb, among others. She got her PhD in Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley and has taught in the department of English at NYU and in the TAPS department at Brown, where she directed the MFA program in Playwriting.
