J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Julie Jensen photograph collection
Jensen, Julie
P1924
114 items
1 box
1903-2013
Julie Jensen is an award-winning playwright who taught playwriting at multiple universities and workshops. Born in Utah, in 2014 Jensen moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to serve as resident playwright for the Salt Lake Acting Company; she has also been affiliated with Salt Lake City's Plan-B Theatre and Pygmalion Theatre. This collection contains photographs and slides documenting Jensen's career as a playwright, including photographs of numerous stage productions of her work.
English
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. Jensen 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, Jensen 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, Jensen 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 Playwrights Laboratory, Ossabaw Island Project, MacDowell Colony, Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat, Wolf Pen Writers Colony and Thurber House. In 1994, Jensen 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 she began working on the play
Mockingbird. In Salt Lake City, Jensen works with three theatres: Salt Lake Acting Company, Plan-B Theatre, and Pygmalion Theatre.
During her educational and professional career, Julie Jensen wrote numerous award-winning one-act and full-length plays, all of which have been professionally produced. Her body of work includes
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 an instructional book on play writing in the late 1990s titled Playwriting Quick and Dirty. In addition to her work as a playwright and university professor, Jensen frequently gives lectures and coordinates workshops about playwrighting and theater. Additionally, she conducted master classes for the American College Theatre Festival and the Summer Playwrighting Intensive at hte Kennedy Center.
The Julie Jensen photograph collection consists of 1 box containing 114 black and white photographs, color photographs, and color slides primarily depicting Julie Jensen's career as a playwright and drama instructor. The collection contains several photograph prints collected by Jensen dating from 1903 and 1909, but the majority of the collection dates from approximately the 1980s to 2013.
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Initial Citation: Julie Jensen photograph collection, P1924, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Following Citations: P1924.
Donated by Julie Jensen in 2014.
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See also the Julie Jensen papers (ACCN 2827) in the Manuscripts Division and the Julie Jensen audio recording (A1197) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.
Jensen, Julie--Dramatic production--Photographs
Hare, David, 1947---Teeth N' Smiles--Dramatic production--Photographs
Jones, Preston, 1936-1979--Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander--Dramatic production--Photographs
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953--Touch of the Poet--Dramatic production--Photographs
Utah State University. English Department--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs
Women dramatists--United States
Theater--Photographs
Theater--Production and direction--Photographs
Drama--Women authors
Photographs
black-and-white photographs
color photographs
Color slides
Swing Out, "Staff from Cali"
1909
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Production of A Way Out of No Way by Julie Jensen
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Production of Old Wives Tale
1
3
Unidentified Julie Jensen Production
1997
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4
Production of Water Lilies by Julie Jensen
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5
Production of Stray Dogs by Julie Jensen
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6
Monica Hilton and Jonathon Gibson
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7
The Lost Vegas Series Play by Julie Jensen Performe at the Zebra Crossing Theatre
1996
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Last Lists of my Mad Mother
1997
1
9
Last Lists of my Mad Mother
2000
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10
Teeth N' Smiles by David Hare
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11
Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander by Preston Jones
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12
A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill
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13