Julie Jensen papers, 1963-2013

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Jensen, Julie
Title
Julie Jensen papers
Dates
1963-2013 (inclusive)
Quantity
28 linear feet, (59 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Collection Number
ACCN 2827
Summary
The Julie Jensen papers (1963-2013) consist of teaching and professional materials along with play scripts, production materials, and other play writing publications. Jensen has a Ph.D. in Theatre, is a playwright and became the resident playwright for the Salt Lake Acting Company towards the end of her career.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

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Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Julie Jensen was raised in Beaver, Utah where she graduated from Beaver High School. She continued her education at Southern Utah University where she became a founding member in the Utah Shakespearian Festival. She graduated with a B.S. in and M.A. in English from Utah State University in 1965. She had an extensive teaching career which started at Sacramento City College where she taught English from 1966-1969. After leaving Sacramento City College she returned to school and earned a Ph.D. in Theatre from Wayne State University (1973-1977) where she simultaneously worked as an instructor in 1976. Following her Ph.D., she became an associate instructor at St. Mary's College at the University of Notre Dame from 1977-1989. From 1989-1990 she worked as term writer for Columbia Pictures Television in Comedy Development. Also, during 1980-1994, Julie Jensen served as an artist-in-residence at the Midwest Playrights Laboratory, Ossabaw Island Project, MacDowell Colony, Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat, Wolf Pen Writers Colony and Thurber House. However, she returned to teaching as a full-time professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1994. Following her time teaching at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Julie Jensen returned to Utah to become the resident playwright for the Salt Lake Acting Company where her most recent work, Mockingbird was in process in 2014.

During her educational and professional career Julie Jensen wrote numerous award-winning one-act and full-length plays such as Stray Dogs which won the DBS/FDG award in 1986 and premiered at ARENA Stage in Washington D.C. The ARENA Stage production earned a nomination and was a finalist for the Helen Hayes Award. White Money won the 1990 Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays. Lost Vegas Series was awarded and the Jefferson Citation Award in 1996 for its production at the Zebra Crossing Theatre.Tender Hooks, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, and Two-Headed each won the Mill Mountain Theatre Festival. Julie Jensen also wrote and "how to" book on play writing in the late 1990s titled Playwriting Quick and Dirty. These are a few of Julie Jensen's writings that received critical acclaim and were produced at theatres across the United States and London, England.

Her writings and plays represented in this collection range from 1969-2013.

(Materials used for the biographical note can be found in Box 1 Folder 1, and the play script Inc. website, https://www.play scripts.com/playwrights/bios/199. Box 1 Folder 1 also contains a more complete list of education, professional productions of her plays, University productions, films, publications, and awards.)

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is organized into 7 series: Undergraduate, Graduate, and Early Career Writings; Teaching and Professional Materials; Play scripts and Production Materials; Playwriting Publications; Playwriting Organizational Involvement; General Professional Materials; and General Personal Materials. The collection was arranged chronologically within each series or subseries.

Teaching and Professional Materials is separated by institution and further separated into certificates/theatre program involvement, and writings/production materials.

Play Scripts and Production Materials are separted into individual plays. Drafts, final play scripts, and production materials are organized chronologically within each play. Each play section contains drafts, final play scripts, and production materials. Many plays went through multiple productions at various theatres and have been organized by theatre and year. Folders labeled "production" materials may contain news releases, flyers, playbills, pictures, correspondence regarding the production, and reviews.

Playwriting Publications contains books and articles written by Julie Jensen about playwriting and life as a playwright. It also contains articles that others wrote about Julie Jensen and her career as a playwright.

Playwriting Organization Involvement is organized chonologically and contains materials about workshops, lectures, work as dramaturg, newsletters and correspondence from playwriting organizations that Julie Jensen was involved with.

General Professional Materials and General Personal Materials both contain miscellaneous papers and documents regarding Julie Jensen's colleagues, colleagues' work, and family.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Julie Jensen in 2014.

Processing Note

Processed by Chelsea Olsen in 2014-2015.

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Separated Materials

See also the Julie Jensen photograph collection (P1924) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Curriculum VitaeReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 1, Folder 1

These are copies of resumes found throughout the collection to be used as a reference of Julie Jensen's professional timeline. The originals remain within their original order.

Education and Early Career Short WritingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 2
Papers from the College of Southern Utah
 1963
1 3
"Her Hour Upon the Stage: A Study of Anne Brace Girdle, Restoration Actress"
Graduate Thesis submitted by Master of Arts in English at Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
1965
1 4
"A Game Now While It's Raining"
 1969
1 5
"Jimmy Boy Gone," Drafts
 1969
1 6
"The Ring," One-Act Play
 1969
1 7
"What on Earth For?" Short Story
 1969
1 8
"Harold Pinter's No Man's Land: Wedding of the Absurd and the Post-Absurd"
1 9
"Leslie"
2 1-13
Short Works
 1968-1981
2 14
Miscellaneous College Materials
 1965-1966

Teaching and Professional MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
Sacramento City College Teaching Evaluations
 1966-1970
Wayne State University
Julie Jensen completed a Ph.D. in Theatre at Wayne State University from 1973-1976. During that time she taught as an Instructor in the English Department. Within this subseries there are two sections: professional involvement and writings that were dated and labeled during her time spent at Wayne State University.
Certificates and Theatre Program Involvement
Box Folder
3 2
Curriculum Vitae
 1973-1974
3 3
Doctorate in Philosophy
 1971-1978
3 4
Teaching Evaluations and Correspondence
 1972-1975
3 5-6
Programs and Events
 1971; 1974-1977
3 7
Achievement in Art Education Award
 1991
object
3 8
Lamb Rags, 36 of 200
 1970
3 9
Lamb Rags, 74 of 200
 1970
3 10
Moving Out, Volume 2 Number 2
 1972
3 11
Moving Out, Volume 3 Number 1
 1973
3 12
Moving Out, Volume 3 Number 2
 1973
3 13
Ozone Review
Writings and Production Materials
Boxes 4-7 contain materials that were written by Julie Jensen during her time as a Ph.D. student and Instructor at Wayne State University. The materials consist of essay and play script drafts, final versions, news releases, playbills, performance announcements, and reviews.
Box Folder
4 1
Scratches in Zucchini
1970
4 2
Stillborn Cadenza
1970
4 3
Lamb Rags, published in Scratches in Zucchini and Stillborn Cadenza
1971
4 4
Poisoned Lilies
1971
4 5
Puppies
1971; 1974
5 1
ReNietzche, published in Moving Out and Women Becoming
1971; 1974
5 2
This Might Not Be A Play
5 3
Productions of Puppies and ReNietzsche and This Might Not be a Play
5 4
Productions of Three Fragments and Puppies
1971-1977
5 5
Laughter of Locusts, Working Drafts
 1971
5 6
Laughter of Locusts, Excerpted Version
 1972
5 7
Laughter of Locusts, Publications and Productions
 1972; 1974-1975
5 8
Geneveve, Published in Jaw, page 2
 1972
5 9
Geneveve, Notes and Working Drafts
 1972
5 10
Geneveve, Final Drafts
 1972
5 11
The Ann Inside of Ann
1973
6 1
Daisy Gough Funeral Director
1973
6 2
The Day Joe Brad Made Darla Lou to Kiss
1973
6 3
How Darla Lou Turned Herself Into a Comic Book of Love, published in The Periodic Lunch
1973; 1975
6 4
How Kenneth Come to Love Darla Lou
1973
6 5
"Darla Lou" Fragments
 1973
6 6
How Darla Lou Come to Know She's Turn Out
1974
6 7
Weird Walter
1973
6 8
In the Mind of Margery's Memory
1974
6 9
"Limp," Film treatment
 1974
6 10
A Play Written By A Group About Itself
1974
6 11
Wind
1974
6 12
Summer Group
 1974
6 13
"List of Lists"
 1975
6 14
"Nurse a Wrath to Keep it Warm"
 1975
6 15
Review of "Her Mother"
 1975; 1977
7 1
Was Birds, Drafts and Final Version
 1975; 1982
7 2
Was Birds, published on page 68, Journal of the Contemporary Arts
1980
7 3
The Little Show, Drafts and Final Version
 1977
7 4
Milkweed and Cockleburs
1977
7 5
East Side Blues, Grand Circus Exchange Performances
East Blues was a collection of scenes written and performed by Mary Roberts and Julie Jensen at the Grand Circus Exchange in Detroit, Michigan. This folder contains news releases, programs, performance announcements and reviews.
1975-1976
St. Mary's College at the University of Notre Dame
Julie Jensen was an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre at at Saint Mary's College. During her time there she taught a variety of theatre courses, directed at least one production, and administered the theatre program. This information is found on her resume in Box 1 Folder 1. This subseries is divided into Certificates and Theatre Program Involvement, and Writings and Productions.
Certificates and Theatre Program Involvement
Box Folder
8 1-2
Professional Correspondence/Teaching Appointment Letters
 1979-1989
8 3
Teaching Evaluation Materials
8 4
Playwrights' General News
 1980
8 5
News Pamphlet
 2011
9 1
Calendars
 1979
9 2
Calendars
 1983-1984; 1986
9 3
Calandar
10 1
To Flowers, Who Can Say No?
This book is a compilation of stories and poems written by elementary school students that was directed by writies in residence at St. Mary's College: Dolores Frese, Julie Jensen, and Jeanne Rodes.
1983
10 2-8
Theatre Program
These folders contains theatre program production announcements, reviews, workshops, and general program news.
1979-1986
10 9
Indiana Theatre Works
 1987-1989
Writings and Production Materials
Box Folder
11 1
Play Announcements and Reviews
Folder 1 includes The Touch of the Poet,Vegetable Buddies, and Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander. Julie Jensen did not write, but she did direct the productions of The Touch of the Poet, and Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander.
1978
11 2
The Process of "Holiday," The Group as a Playwright
circa 1978
11 3-4
Butch Cassidy Bites the Bullet Drafts
 1979
11 5
Butch Cassidy Bites the Bullet Reviews and News
 1979
11 6
Butch Cassidy Ain't Never Settled Down Draft
 1979
11 7
Butch Cassidy Correspondence
 1979
11 8-10
The Grief of Maureen Morgan Drafts
 circa 1981
11 11
First Word, One-Act Play
 1979
11 12
Seduction Draft
 1979
11 13
Review of Deer Hunter Movie
 1979
12 1-5
A Way Out of No Way, Drafts and Final Version
 circa 1980
12 6-9
A Way out of No Way, Productions
A Way Out of No Way was produced at the Wayne State University American Bicentennial Playwriting Competition, St. Mary's Theatre at Notre Dame, Wright State University, and Castillo Theatre Company. This folder contains materials such as cast pictures, programs, reviews, and anouncements.
1975-1981; 1985
12 10
Nightline, Drafts with Edits
 1980
12 11
Nightline Excerpt, page 38
 1981
12 12
Nighline Revised
 1983
12 13
Nightline produced in About Heaven and Earth Program
 1984
12 14
A Little Less Than Kim Production Materials and Reviews
 1987; 1989
Columbia Pictures Television
Julie Jensen worked as a term writer in comedy development. Her job was to develop and present sitcom projects to television networks. This subseries contains drafts of projects during her time at Columbia Pictures.
Box Folder
13 1
Norman Lear Ideas and Drafts
 1987-1988
13 2
Connie Sawyer Episode Drafts
 1989 June
13 3
Connie Sawyer Episode II Drafts
 1989
13 4
Latch Key Kids Development Notes
13 5
Latch Key Kids Drafts and Sample Scene
 1989
13 6
Poor Walter Sit-com Development Notes
 1989
13 7
Poor Walter Drafts
 1989
13 8
Slovo Dog Drafts
 1989
13 9
Gimme Shelter Drafts
 1989-1990
13 10
Vegas Treatment Development Notes and Drafts
 1990
14 1
Callback First Draft
 1990
14 2
Callback, Production by the American Film Institute
 1990
14 3
Say It Ain't So Development and Pilot
 1990
14 4
Three Times Nightly story for Film Script
 1991
14 5
Room for Two
1992
14 6
Sandy Movie Notes
14 7
RoseAnne Notes
14 8-10
Polygamy Feature Development Notes and Drafts
14 11
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1992
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Julie Jensen worked as an artist-in-residence during 1991, and returned as a professor for the graduate programn in the Department of Theatre in 1994.
Box Folder
15 1-2
Correspondence, Tenure, and Awards
 1992-2000
15 3
Fellowships, Awards, and Recognition
 1992-2000
15 4-9
Teaching Evaluations
 1994-1997
15 10
University Student Productions
 1991
15 11
Activities of Master in Fine Arts Playwriting Program
 1994-1997
15 12
University of Nevada Press
1995
15 13
Mixed Blessings: A Collection of 11 Short Plays
1997
Salt Lake Acting Company
Julie Jensen became the Resident Playwright at the Salt Lake Acting Company circa 2000-2014. This section contains general materials of her involment in the Salt Lake Acting Company. The Dramatist publications contain articles with Julie Jensen's updates on the Salt Lake Acting Company.
Box Folder
16 1
Playbills
 1991; 1997
16 2-5
Play Programs and Announcements
 2002-2013
16 6
The Dramatist
2008
16 7
The Dramatist, see page 64-65
 2010
16 8
The Dramatist, see page 60-61
 2011
16 9
The Dramatist, see page 65-66
 2012

Play Scripts and Production MaterialsReturn to Top

This series contains completed full-length plays that went to production on stages across the United States. The plays overlap with her Teaching Career; Dates range from 1969, 1974-2013. Plays are organized chronologically, however, dates overlap.

Container(s) Description Dates
Cisterns
Box Folder
17 1-3
Drafts
 1979-1980
17 4
Working Copy
 1980
17 5
Final play script
 1980
17 6
Revisions
Includes 2 revisions of Cisterns, one titled Cisterns, and one titled Mama's Dream Girls.
1981
17 7
Equity Production arranged for Attic Theatre
This folder includes only the play script from the production.
1981
17 8
Attic Theatre Production of Cisterns, Detroit, Michigan
This folder includes ticket stubs, news releases, and reviews from the production at Attic Theatre.
1982
17 9
L.A. Version Revised
 1983
17 10
Back Alley Theatre Production of Cisterns, Burbank, California
This folder includes announcements, correspondence, information about Back Alley Theatre, and reviews from the production at Back Alley Theatre.
1983
Day of the Races
Box Folder
18 1
Drafts and Production Materials
 1981-1982; 1985
18 2
St. Mary's College Production Program and Reviews
 1982-1983
18 3
Performance Forum Production program from production in Colorado Springs, CO
 1986
18 4
A.S.K.(Audrey Skirball-Kenis) Play Collection published Cisterns and Day of the Races
Old Wives Tale
Old Wives Tale is a one-act play that Julie Jensen later developed into a full-length play, Tenderhooks. Tenderhooks Drafts and Productions are found in Boxes 20-21.
Box Folder
19 1
"A Day of Tilly Biederman," a story, First and Second Drafts
"A Day of Tilly Biederman" was an early version that was later developed into Old Wives Tale
1982
19 2-4
Scenes I-VI (1-6) Drafts
 1982
19 5
Final play script
 1982
19 6
Georgia Review publication of Old Wives Tale and Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Playwrights Award Honorable Mention
 1983
19 7
Summary of Old Wives Tale and Sweet Tuesday Falls
1984
19 8
Women's Project Production Materials
 1984
19 9
English Public House Production Materials
 1986
19 10
University of South Carolina at Spartanburg Production Materials
 1987
Tenderhooks
Tenderhooks is a full-length play that was developed from the one-act play, Old Wives Tale. Old Wives Tale Drafts and Production Materials can be found in Box 19.
Box Folder
20 1
play script
 1990
20 2-4
play script Revisions
 1990-1991
21 1-3
play script Revisions
 1995
21 4
New Plays in Progress Reading
 1995
21 5
Plays-in-Progress Reading, Utah Shakespearian Festival
 1995
21 6-7
Playscipt Revisions
 1996
21 8
Norfolk Southern Festival Production, Virginia
 1996-1997
21 9
New Monologues for Mature Actors, see page 50
Sweet Tuesday Falls
Box Folder
22 1-2
play scripts
 1983-1984
22 3-4
Revision Drafts and Notes
 1985
22 5
play script
 1989
22 6
Women In Theatre Network presents 3 One-Act Plays
 1984
22 7
Professional Older Women's Theatre Festival Reading, New York, NY
 1985
22 8
Theatre Works, Colorado Springs, Colorado
 1986
22 9
Key West Theatre Festival Production and Reviews
 1994
22 10
A Grand Entrance: Scenes and Monologues for Mature Actors
Stray Dogs
Box Folder
23 1
Outlines
23 2-3
Notes and Revisions
23 4
Nyda and Wells Dialogue Drafts
23 5
Act I Scene I Drafts
 1983-1985
23 6-8
Act I Drafts
 1983-1985
23 9
Act II Drafts
 1983-1985
24 1-2
Act II Drafts
 1983-1985
25 1
Complete play script
 1984
25 2-3
play script developed for St. Mary's Theatre
 1984
25 4-5
play script Revision
 1984-1986
25 6
Shanadoah Playwrights Retreat Production
 1985
25 7
Shanan Arts Newsletters
 1985-1986
25 8
play script developed for ARENA Stage
 1986
26 1-3
play script developed for ARENA Stage
 1986
26 4
ARENA Stage Production and Reviews
 1986
26 5
Announcement of Dramatist Guild/DBS New Plays Program Award, selected by ARENA Stage
 1985-1986
26 6
Helen Hayes Award Nomination, National Play Award Committee for ARENA Stage Production
 1987
26 7
Washington D.C. ARENA Stage General Materials
 1986
26 8
play script published by Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York
 1987
26 9
University of Delaware Production and Ensemble Stage Company Production Materials, Indiana
 1987-1988
26 10
Salt Lake Acting Company Reading
 1991
26 11
Profiles Theatre in Chicago Production Materials
 1999
26 12
Film Script
26 13
Film Release
 2000-2002
26 14
Props List
Thursday's Child
Final versions of the play scripts for Thursday's Child can be found in Box 29 Folders 5-7. There were 3 completed play scripts, the first was copyrighted in 1986, and play scripts 2 and 3 were copyrighted in 1988. The different versions of the play contain added and deleted scenes. In the folders following labeled "Notes and Drafts" there is a note identifying which scenes are represented based on the final copyrighted version.
Box Folder
27 1
Beginning Notes
27 2
Notes and Drafts
Scene I, All Versions.
27 3
Notes and Drafts
Scene 2, All Versions
27 4
Notes and Drafts
Scene IV in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5 Scene II and III in versions copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
27 5
Scenes 1-3
 1987
28 1
Notes and Drafts
Scene 3 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7
28 2
Notes and Drafts
Scene 5 and 6 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5. Scene 4 and 5 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
28 3
Notes and Drafts
Scene 7 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5. Scene 5 in versions copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
28 4
Notes and Drafts
Scene 7 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5. Scene 5 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
28 5-6
Notes and Drafts
Scene 4 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
28 7
Notes and Drafts
Scene 5 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
29 1
George Ann and Keitha Dialogue Notes
29 2
Picnic Scene Notes
29 3
Doctor's Office Scene Notes
29 4
Miscellaneous Scene Notes
29 5
Final play script, version 1
 1986
29 6
Final play script, version 2
This play script was read at the Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
1988
29 7
Final play script, version 3
Letter from Julie Jensen regarding play, 1989
revised, 1988
29 8
St. Mary's Theatre, Notre Dame Production
 1987
29 9
Capital Repertory Theatre Production, Albany, New York
 1988
29 10
Attic Theatre Production, Detroit, Michigan and Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre Reading
 1991-1992
29 11
Pilot Episode Screenplay for a sit-com
 1990
29 12
Pilot Draft with Edits
 June 1990
29 13
First Pilot Draft, Revised
 Uune 1990
White Money
Box Folder
30 1
Early Drafts of "Starburst," Scene
 1969
30 2
"Exit 3 Motel" Drafts
30 3
"Sailing to Byzantium" Drafts
 1988
30 4
Early Complete Draft
30 5
Final play script
 1988
30 6
play script Revised
 August 1989
30 7
play script Revised
The play script was revised in 1989, however handwritten revisions were added in 1990.
1989-1990
30 8
play script
 1990
30 9
Salt Lake Acting Company Productions, Utah
 1990-1992
30 10
Fund for New American Plays Award
White Money won the Fund for New American Plays Award in 1990 for the production staged by the Salt Lake Acting Company in Box 30 Folder 9. The Folder contains the award certificate and correspondence, but also other materials from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that are related to this award.
1990-1991; 1994
30 11
Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre Reading, Los Angeles, California
 1990
31 1
play script copyrighted 1989 Revised
 1991
31 2
play script copyrighted 1989, Revised 1991 Published by Plays in Progress
1991
31 3
Last Draft
 1991
31 4
American Theatre Articles
 1991-1992
31 5
Mill Mountain Theatre Festival of New Works Production Reviews, Virginia
 1992
31 6
Source Theatre Production Materials, Washington D.C.
 1992
31 7
Power House Theatre Production Materials, Santa Monica, California
 1994
31 8
Splitting Image Theatre Production Materials, Baltimore, Maryland
 1994
31 9
Various Productions
31 10
White Money Part 1: Snake Eye, page 201, Kenyon Review
1993
31 11
White Money excerpt, page 61, Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes
1999
31 12
Screenplay by Julie Jensen and Peter Frisch
 1992
Two Headed
Box Folder
32 1
Early Draft and Notes
32 2-10
Drafts
Drafts are organized by the month they were written. Folder Headings identify month.
1997
32 11
play script copyrighted 1997, Revised
 1998
33 1
play script Revised
 1998 November
33 2
play script Revised
 1999 June
33 3
Professional Reading and Workshops
 1999
33 4
A.S.K. Theatre Projects Common Ground Festival Production
 1999
33 5
play script Revised
 2000
33 6
Women's Project Production Materials, New York
 2000
33 7-8
Women's Project Listings
 2000
33 9
Women's Project Correspondence and Receipts
 2000
34 1
John Anson Ford Theatre Production Materials
 2001-2002
34 2
Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2000, page 101
 2002
34 3
Mountain Meadows Massacre Articles
 2002
34 4
Various Productions
 1997-2006
34 5
Cleveland Public Theatre Production Materials, Ohio
 2007
34 6
Berkshire Theatre Festival Production Materials, Massachusetts
 2007
34 7
Morgan Theatre Production Materials, Utah State
 2012
34 8
The Rose Theatre Production Materials, London, England
 2012
34 9
play script published by Dramatic Publishing
35 1-2
Dramatic Publishing Catalogue
 2002-2005
35 3
Screenplay by Paula Cizmar
 2005
35 4
Film Script by Mary Mara and Veronica Brady
The Lost Vegas Series
The Lost Vegas Series is a series of one-act plays. Box 36 folders 2-9 are drafts of the different acts. The completed series play scripts are found in box 36 Folders 10-13. When the play was revised in 1994 one of the acts was re written.
Box Folder
36 1
Notes and Drafts
 1991
36 2
"How Not To Get Fucked in Less Than Forty Lessons" Drafts
 1990; 1993
36 3
"How Not To Get Fucked in Less Than Forty Lessons," The Literary Review and Reviews
 1991-1992; 1994
36 4
"The Greatest Love," Second Draft
 1993
36 5
"Wee Kirk O' the Heather" play script
 1993
36 6
"The Liberace Museum" play script
 1993
36 7
"The Liberace Museum," page 141, Alaska Quarterly Review
1995
36 8
"The Total Meaning of Real Life" play script and Playwrights and Exile Production
 1993
36 9
"Total Meaning of Real Life," page 69, published in Lucky 13
1995
36 10
play script
"Wee Kirk O' The Heather," 1993 "The Greatest Love," 1993 "How Not to get Fucked in Less than 40 Lessons" "The Liberace Museum," 1993 "Away in a Manger," 1994 "Lion Tongue," 1994 The back of the folder contains drafts and notes relating to this version of the Play series
1993-1994
36 11
Final play script
  • "The Greatest Love"
  • "The Liberace Museum"
  • "Wee Kirk O' The Heather"
  • "Away in a Manger," 1994
  • "How Not to get Fucked in Less than 40 Lessons"
  • "Lion Tongue"
 1994 June
36 12
play script Revised
 1995
36 13
play script Revised
This play script is slightly different for the play script in box 36 folder 12
1995
37 1
Zebra Crossing Theatre Production Materials, Chicago Illinois
The folder also contains materials regarding the Jeff Citations Award. The play was nominated from the production at the Zebra Crossing Theatre. It was presented the award in 1996.
1995-1997
37 2
play script Revised
 1997
37 3
Various Production and Staged Readings
 1995-2003
37 4
play script Revised
 2005
Last Lists of My Mad Mother
Box Folder
38 1
Notes
38 2
Early Drafts
38 3
play script
  • "My Mama Don't Eat"
  • "Chipmunks"
  • "Deer on a Wire"
  • "Running Suit and Pink and Gray"
  • "Bringing in the Sheep"
 1995
38 4
play script
  • "Sassing Sister"
  • "My Mama Don't Eat"
  • "Deer on a Wire"
  • "Running Suit and Pink and Gray"
  • "Bringing in the Sheep"
 1996
38 5
"Deer on a Wire," page 22, published in Parabasis: The Journal of the M.A.S.K. Theatre
1996
38 6-10
play script Revisions
Each folder contains a revised play script and is labeled with the date of the revision.
1996 April-July
39 1
play script Revised
 1997 February
39 2
Mill Mountain Theatre Competition Materials
 1997
39 3
play script Revised
 1997 October
39 4
Carnegie Mellon Drama Production Materials, Pennsylvania
 1997
39 5
Key West Theatre Festival Production Materials, Florida
 1997
39 6
Salt Lake Acting Company Production Materials, Utah
 1997
39 7
"Deer on a Wire," page 45, Kenyon Review
1998
39 8-9
play scripts Revised
 1998
39 10
Theatre Works Productions, Hartford Connecticut and New York
 1998
40 1
KUED Public Television Adaption Materials
 1999
40 2
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Listing, page 87
 1999
40 3
play script Revised
 1999
40 4
Published play script by Dramatic Publishing Company
40 5
A.S.K. (Audrey Skirball-Kenis) Theatre Productions
 1996-1999
40 6
Hudson Guild Production Materials, L.A. California
 2000
40 7
Shanan Arts Production Materials, Virginia
 2001
40 8
Luna Stage Company Production Materials, New Jersey
 2001
40 9
Pygmalion Production at Rose Wagner Theatre Materials, SLC, Utah
 2011
40 10
Various Staged Readings and Productions
 1996-2002
40 11
Theatre Artists Studio Production Materials, Illinois
40 12-13
Dramatic Publishing Catalogue
 2000-2005
Cheat
Box Folder
41 1
Notes
41 2-4
play script Drafts 1-2
 1998
41 5
Geva Theatre, New York Production Materials
 1999 January
41 6
play script, Draft 3
 1999 February
41 7
Working Theatre, New York Production Materials and Salt Lake Acting Company Play Sounding Series Materials
 1999-2000
41 8-9
play script, Draft 4
 2000 January
41 10
Playwrights Theatre Production, Madison, New Jersey
 2000
42 1-4
play scripts, Drafts 5-8
 2000-2001
42 5
Key West Theatre Festival Production Materials, Florida
 2001
42 6
Women's Project and Productions Production Materials, New York
 2002
42 7
Detroit Repertory Theatre Production Materials, Michigan
 2003
42 8
Play script Revised for Pygmalion Theatre
 2012
42 9
Pygmalion Productions at Rose Wagner Theatre, SLC, Utah, Production Materials
 2013
Wait
Box Folder
43 1
Notes and improvisation
 2000
43 2
Iimprovisation, Outline, and Sample Scenes
 2000
43 3
play script Draft 1
 2000
43 4
No Small Actors Publicity
 2000
43 5-10
play script Drafts 2-7
 2001-2002
44 1-2
play script Drafts 8-9
 2002
44 3
Salt Lake Acting Company Production Materials
 2001; 2003
44 4
ACT Theatre Readings, Seattle, Washington
 2002
44 5
play scripts published by Dramatic Publishing
2003
44 6
Cleveland Public Theatre Production Materials, Ohio
 2003
44 7
Perseverance Theatre Production Theatre Production Materials, Alaska and Kitchen Dog Theatre Materials, Texas
 2004
44 8
National Showcase of New Plays Production Materials, Chicago Illinois
 2004
44 9
Various Productions
 2004-2005
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
Box Folder
45 1
Draft 1
 2001
45 2
Draft 2
 2002
45 3
Draft 2 Revised
This draft is the same as found in folder 2, but has hand-written notes and edits.
2002
45 4
Draft 3
 2003
45 5
Draft 4
 2003
45 6
Draft 5
 2005
45 7
Playwrights Theatre Production Announcements, Madison, New Jersey
 2010
Dust Eaters
In earlier drafts of the play script, Dusteaters, the play was titled Goshute Play as shown in the drafts contained in Box 46 Folders 3-9. From Box 46 Folder 10 and Box 47 Folders .
Box Folder
46 1-2
Research
46 3
Scene 1 Drafts
46 4
Scene 2 Drafts
46 5
Scene 3 Drafts
46 6
Scene 4 Drafts
46 7
Working Draft, Scene 2-7
 2003
46 8
Draft 2
 2003 April
46 9
Draft 3
 2003 June
46 10
Draft 4
 2003 September
47 1
Draft 4
This draft contains notes and edits not in the draft from box 46 folder 10.
2003 September
47 2-3
Draft 5
 2004 January
47 4
Draft 5 Revision
47 5
Draft 6
 2004 May
47 6
Draft 7
 2004 July
47 7
Playwrights Theatre Production Materials, Utah
 2003-2004
47 8
Draft 9, post production
 2005 June
47 9
play script published by Dramatic Publishing
2005
47 10
Salt Lake Acting Company Production Materials
 2005
47 11
PEN USA Literary Award Letter
 2006
47 12
Productions
Borderlands Theatre Production Materials, Tucson, Arizona and New Works Festival Ticket Stubs, Idaho.
2007
47 13
Lincoln Square Theatre Production Materials, Chicago, Illinois
 2008
Billion Dollar Baby
Box Folder
48 1-7
Drafts 3-10
 2006-2007
48 8
Festival of New Works Production Materials, Moscow, Idaho
 2007
48 9
Salt Lake Acting Company Production Materials, Utah
 2007
48 10
Salt Lake Acting Company Reviews
 2007
48 11
Various Productions
She's Was My Brother
Box Folder
49 1
Early Drafts
49 2-7
Drafts 1-7
 2008
49 8
Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) and Page-to-Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center Production Materials
 2008
49 9
Montana Theatre Production Materials
 2009
49 10
Borderlands theatre Production Materials, Tucson, Arizona
 2009
50 1-2
Draft 8-9
 2009-2010
50 3
Plan B. Theatre Production Materials, SLC, Utah
 2010
Mockingbird
Box Folder
51 1-2
Mockingbird Drafts
 2013
51 3
Mockingbird Reading, Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
 2013
Short Plays and Play Collaborations
Box Folder
52 1
You Always Get What You Want and Rapture
52 2
"Free Market"
 2001
52 3
Review of The Robber Groom, page 6E
 2001
52 4
Water Lilies
Published in Cabbies, Cowboys, and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin, page 60.
2001-2002
52 5
"Snapshot," Humana Festival of New American Plays
 2002; 2010
52 6
play scripts, Inc.
Contains Announcements for Snapshot and On Lincoln's Head.
2003-2005
52 7
Blitzkrieg or How We Went to War Production Materials
 2004; 2006
52 8
Neon Mirage, Humana Film Festival
 2006
52 9
Neon Mirage, page 347-400
 2006
53 1
Harvey Girls, Draft 2
 2009
53 2
Harvey Girls, Draft 10
53 3
HarveyGirls, Dramatic Publishing Publication
 2010
53 4
Harvey Girls, Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) Fearless Fringe Festival Production
 2010
53 5-7
Margo and Me, Drafts
 2010-2011
53 8
The Brown Shoes, Gordon College, Massachusetts
 2011
53 9
"An Evening of Scenes by Julie Jensen," Utah State University
 2012
53 10
Public Humiliation
2012
53 11-12
Christmas with Misfits Drafts
 circa 2012
53 13
Christmas with Misfits, Reading at Western Michigan University
 2012
54 1-5
"The Hilltop of Amy Owens" Drafts
54 6
"Chloe" Notes
54 7
"Lost Vager Play" Notes
54 8
"Rubber Guy" Play

Playwriting PublicationsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Playwriting Quick and Dirty
Playwriting Quick and Dirty is a How to... book on Playwriting Julie Jensen wrote in the late 1990s and was later revised in 2005.
Box Folder
55 1
Publication List
 1996-1997
55 2
Early Drafts
 circa 1994
55 3
Publication Version
 1994
55 4
Published Versions
 1996-1997
55 5
Revised Edition
 2005
Published Articles on Playwriting and Other Publications
These are articles Julie Jensen wrote over the course of her career that were published in various Theatre, academic journals, conferences, and newsletters. Other Publications include Playwriting Brief and Brilliant and the publications in box 56 folder 12-13 in which Julie Jensen assisted actual publication process as an editor and illustrator.
Box Folder
56 1
"American Female Dramatists: Show But No Go?," page 78 from the Annual GLCA Women's Studies Conference
 1982
56 2
"Creating Original Characters," page 16
 circa 1992
56 3
"the Life of a Playwright?," page 167
 1991
56 4
Published Essays
"Old Whores and Aging Playwrights," page 85-86. "Writer's Block," page 4. "Character," page 6. "A Modest Proposal," page 4-5
1994
56 5
"The Los Angeles Perspective," and "Where O' Where has Diversity Gone"
 1996; 1999
56 6
"The Devil's in the Rewrite"
 1999
56 7
Playwriting Brief and Brilliant Drafts and Published Version
2007
56 8
Review of Playwriting Brief and Brilliant, page 46-47
 2008
56 9
"Making a Career as a Playwright Outside of New York," page 24
 2010
56 10
National Reports: Utah," page 65
 2012
56 11
"National Reports: Utah," page 68
 2012
56 12
Moving Out Volume 4 No. 2
Julie Jensen served as one of the Editors for this publication.
1974
56 13
That Rocky Place
Julie Jensen served as the illustrator for this publication.
1996
56 14
Chunk A' Change
Julie Jensen wrote the Preface for this publication.
2000
56 15
Royalty Statements
 2009-2012
Articles written about Julie Jensen as a Playwright
These are articles others wrote about Julie Jensen and her career as a playwright.
Box Folder
57 1
"Julie Jensen Living Las Vegas," page 52
 1997
57 2
"Is Writing Your Main Source of Income," page 6-7
 1998
57 3
"Scripting Success," page 18-21
 1999
57 4
"Julie Jensen: Give Us This Day," page 177
 2000
57 5
"Speaking Up: The Voices of Julie Jensen"
 2001
57 6
"A Conversation with Julie Jensen," page 30
 2001
57 7
"Interviews with Artists," page 18
 2002
57 8
"Playwrights call Proposed Theatre Complex Unrealistic," page 1
 2011

Playwriting Organization InvolvementReturn to Top

This section includes the various workshops, class visits, work as a dramaturg at various theatres, and newsletters and correspondence from organizations she belonged to including Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat and the College of American Theatre Fellows.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
58 1
Lake Michigan College Class Visit
 1987
58 2
Thurber House
 1994
58 3
Playwright Practical Lab, "Unconscious Intercourse"
 1995
58 4
Women's Project and Productions
 1997-2002
58 5
"Saving the American Theatre," Washington University
 2000
58 6
Writers at Work
 2003-2004
58 7
"An Evening of New Play Previews," The Kennedy Center
 1991
58 8
"Jerusalem Son," Festival of New Plays, The Kennedy Center
 1999
58 9
Kennedy Center Workshops
 2006, 2009-2010
58 10
"Project Fabulocity
 2006
58 11
Native Voices at the Autry
 2010-2013
58 12
Various Workshops
 1994-2011
58 13
Dramaturg for the Asylum Theatre, Las Vegas, Nevada
58 14
Florida Keys Honorary Conch Award
58 15
Shanan Arts Correspondence/Newsletters
 1984-1996
58 16-17
College of American Theatre Fellows
 1994; 2002-2013

General Professional MaterialsReturn to Top

The materials contain manuscripts written by Julie Jensen's colleagues that she served as an editor for. It also contains General essays written by others, newsletters, playbills, and reviews.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
59 1
Papers used for "Sue's Book"
59 2
Sue's Book, edited by Julie Jensen
59 3
Materials on the Death of Mary Asu
59 4
Student Essays
59 5
Book edited by Julie Jensen
59 6
"Whistler's Mother's Son" by L.L. West
 2000
59 7
General Newsletters
 1992-2003
59 8-9
General Playbills
59 10
General Reviews

General Personal MaterialsReturn to Top

These materials contain a few personal letters and documents, holiday and birthday cards, newspapers from her home town in Beaver County, and Miscellaneous papers and articles.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
60 1
Personal Correspondence
60 2
Personal Documents
 1971; 1975
60 3
Birthday Cards and Personal Notes
60 4
Christmas Cards
60 5
Announcements
Weddings, Funeral, and Births.
1986; 1999-2000; 2008
60 6
Beaver County Newspapers
 1992-1996
60 7
Presidential Election Materials
Materials supporting Gene McCarthy.
1968
60 8
An Occupational Survey of Former Students of Vocational Agriculture of Beaver High School, Thesis by Well S. Farrer
 1964
60 9
General Materials, California
60 10
General Materials
60 11
Blank Calendars

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Artist-in-residence programs--United States
  • Drama teachers--United States--Archives
  • Dramaturges--United States--Archives
  • Education in the theater--United States
  • Feminist theater--United States--Women authors
  • One-act plays, American--Women authors--Specimens
  • Stage directions--Specimens
  • Television comedy writers--United States--Archives--Archives
  • Women college teachers--United States--Archives
  • Women dramatists--United States--Archives
  • Women television writers--United States--Archives
  • Workshops (Adult education)--United States

Personal Names

  • Jensen, Julie--Archives

Corporate Names

  • Columbia Pictures Television--Employees--Archives
  • Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, Ind.)--Faculty--Archives
  • Salt Lake Acting Company--Records and correspondence
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas--Faculty--Archives
  • Wayne State University--Faculty--Archives
  • Wayne State University--Students--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Business correspondence
  • Calendars
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Drafts (documents)
  • Drama
  • Informational works
  • Instructional and educational works
  • Manuscripts
  • Newsletters
  • Personal correspondence
  • Television scripts
  • Theater programs
  • Theater reviews

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2015 (last modified: 2018 and 2019)

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