J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Julie Jensen papers
Jensen, Julie
ACCN 2827
28 linear feet
59 boxes and 1 oversize box
1963-2013
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.
English
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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.)
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.
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Donated by Julie Jensen in 2014.
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Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.
Jensen, Julie--Archives
Wayne State University--Students--Archives
Wayne State University--Faculty--Archives
Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, Ind.)--Faculty--Archives
Columbia Pictures Television--Employees--Archives
University of Nevada, Las Vegas--Faculty--Archives
Salt Lake Acting Company--Records and correspondence
Women dramatists--United States--Archives
Women college teachers--United States--Archives
Drama teachers--United States--Archives
Television comedy writers--United States--Archives--Archives
Artist-in-residence programs--United States
Dramaturges--United States--Archives
Women television writers--United States--Archives
One-act plays, American--Women authors--Specimens
Stage directions--Specimens
Feminist theater--United States--Women authors
Education in the theater--United States
Workshops (Adult education)--United States
Performing Arts
Instructional and educational works
Drama
Theater programs
Newsletters
Theater reviews
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Calendars
Television scripts
Manuscripts
Drafts (documents)
Informational works
Personal correspondence
Business correspondence
Curriculum vitae
1
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 writings
Papers from the College of Southern Utah
1963
1
2
"Her Hour Upon the Stage: A Study of Anne Brace Girdle, Restoration Actress"
1965
1
3
Graduate Thesis submitted by Master of Arts in English at Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
"A Game Now While It's Raining"
1969
1
4
"Jimmy Boy Gone" [drafts]
1969
1
5
"The Ring," one-act play
1969
1
6
"What on Earth For?" short story
1969
1
7
"Harold Pinter's No Man's Land: Wedding of the Absurd and the Post-Absurd"
1
8
"Leslie"
1
9
Short works
1968-1981
2
1-13
Miscellaneous college materials
1965-1966
2
14
Teaching and professional materials
Sacramento City College teaching evaluations
1966-1970
3
1
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
Curriculum vitae
1973-1974
3
2
Doctorate in Philosophy
1971-1978
3
3
Teaching evaluations and correspondence
1972-1975
3
4
Programs and events
1971
1974-1977
3
5-6
Achievement in Art Education award
1991
3
7
Lamb Rags, 36 of 200
1970
3
8
Lamb Rags, 74 of 200
1970
3
9
Moving Out, Volume 2 Number 2
1972
3
10
Moving Out, Volume 3 Number 1
1973
3
11
Moving Out, Volume 3 Number 2
1973
3
12
Ozone Review
3
13
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.
Scratches in Zucchini
1970
4
1
Stillborn Cadenza
1970
4
2
Lamb Rags, published in Scratches in Zucchini and Stillborn Cadenza
1971
4
3
Poisoned Lilies
1971
4
4
Puppies
1971
1974
4
5
ReNietzche, published in Moving Out and Women Becoming
1971
1974
5
1
This Might Not Be A Play
5
2
Productions of Puppies and ReNietzsche and This Might Not be a Play
5
3
Productions of Three Fragments and Puppies
1971-1977
5
4
Laughter of Locusts [working drafts]
1971
5
5
Laughter of Locusts [excerpted version]
1972
5
6
Laughter of Locusts, publications and productions
1972
1974-1975
5
7
Geneveve, published in Jaw, page 2
1972
5
8
Geneveve [notes and working drafts]
1972
5
9
Geneveve [final drafts]
1972
5
10
The Ann Inside of Ann
1973
5
11
Daisy Gough Funeral Director
1973
6
1
The Day Joe Brad Made Darla Lou to Kiss
1973
6
2
How Darla Lou Turned Herself Into a Comic Book of Love, published in The Periodic Lunch
1973
1975
6
3
How Kenneth Come to Love Darla Lou
1973
6
4
"Darla Lou" [fragments]
1973
6
5
How Darla Lou Come to Know She's Turn Out
1974
6
6
Weird Walter
1973
6
7
In the Mind of Margery's Memory
1974
6
8
"Limp," [film treatment]
1974
6
9
A Play Written By A Group About Itself
1974
6
10
Wind
1974
6
11
Summer group
1974
6
12
"List of Lists"
1975
6
13
"Nurse a Wrath to Keep it Warm"
1975
6
14
Review of "Her Mother"
1975
1977
6
15
Was Birds [drafts and final version]
1975
1982
7
1
Was Birds, published on page 68, Journal of the Contemporary Arts
1980
7
2
The Little Show [drafts and final version]
1977
7
3
Milkweed and Cockleburs
1977
7
4
East Side Blues, Grand Circus Exchange Performances
1975-1976
7
5
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.
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
Professional correspondence/teaching appointment letters
1979-1989
8
1-2
Teaching evaluation materials
8
3
Playwrights' General News
1980
8
4
News pamphlet
2011
8
5
Calendars
1979
9
1
Calendars
1983-1984
1986
9
2
Calandar
9
3
To Flowers, Who Can Say No?
1983
10
1
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.
Theatre program
1979-1986
10
2-8
These folders contains theatre program production announcements, reviews, workshops, and general program news.
Indiana Theatre Works
1987-1989
10
9
Writings and production materials
Play announcements and reviews
1978
11
1
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.
The Process of "Holiday," The Group as a Playwright
circa 1978
11
2
Butch Cassidy Bites the Bullet [drafts]
1979
11
3-4
Butch Cassidy Bites the Bullet [reviews and news]
1979
11
5
Butch Cassidy Ain't Never Settled Down [draft]
1979
11
6
Butch Cassidy [correspondence]
1979
11
7
The Grief of Maureen Morgan [drafts]
circa 1981
11
8-10
First Word, one-act play
1979
11
11
Seduction [draft]
1979
11
12
Review of Deer Hunter Movie
1979
11
13
A Way Out of No Way [drafts and final version]
circa 1980
12
1-5
A Way out of No Way productions
1975-1981
1985
12
6-9
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.
Nightline [drafts with edits]
1980
12
10
Nightline [excerpt, page 38]
1981
12
11
Nightline [revised]
1983
12
12
Nightline produced in About Heaven and Earth program
1984
12
13
A Little Less Than Kim production materials and reviews
1987
1989
12
14
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.
Norman Lear [ideas and drafts]
1987-1988
13
1
Connie Sawyer [episode drafts]
1989 June
13
2
Connie Sawyer [episode II drafts]
1989
13
3
Latch Key Kids [development notes]
13
4
Latch Key Kids [drafts and sample scene]
1989
13
5
Poor Walter [sit-com development n]otes
1989
13
6
Poor Walter [drafts]
1989
13
7
Slovo Dog [drafts]
1989
13
8
Gimme Shelter [drafts]
1989-1990
13
9
Vegas Treatment [development notes and drafts]
1990
13
10
Callback [first draft]
1990
14
1
Callback, production by the American Film Institute
1990
14
2
Say It Ain't So [development and pilot]
1990
14
3
Three Times Nightly [story for film script]
1991
14
4
Room for Two
1992
14
5
Sandy movie notes
14
6
RoseAnne [notes]
14
7
Polygamy Feature [development notes and drafts]
14
8-10
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1992
14
11
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.
Correspondence, tenure and awards
1992-2000
15
1-2
Fellowships, awards and recognition
1992-2000
15
3
Teaching evaluations
1994-1997
15
4-9
University student productions
1991
15
10
Activities of Master in Fine Arts playwriting program
1994-1997
15
11
University of Nevada Press
1995
15
12
Mixed Blessings: A Collection of 11 Short Plays
1997
15
13
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.
Playbills
1991
1997
16
1
Play programs and announcements
2002-2013
16
2-5
The Dramatist
2008
16
6
The Dramatist, see page 64-65
2010
16
7
The Dramatist, see page 60-61
2011
16
8
The Dramatist, see page 65-66
2012
16
9
Play scripts and production materials
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.
Cisterns
Drafts
1979-1980
17
1-3
Working copy
1980
17
4
Final play script
1980
17
5
Revisions
1981
17
6
Includes 2 revisions of Cisterns, one titled Cisterns, and one titled Mama's Dream Girls.
Equity production arranged for Attic Theatre
1981
17
7
This folder includes only the play script from the production.
Attic Theatre production of Cisterns, Detroit, Michigan
1982
17
8
This folder includes ticket stubs, news releases, and reviews from the production at Attic Theatre.
L.A. version revised
1983
17
9
Back Alley Theatre production of Cisterns, Burbank, California
1983
17
10
This folder includes announcements, correspondence, information about Back Alley Theatre, and reviews from the production at Back Alley Theatre.
Day of the Races
Drafts and production materials
1981-1982
1985
18
1
St. Mary's College production program and reviews
1982-1983
18
2
Performance Forum program from production in Colorado Springs, CO
1986
18
3
A.S.K. (Audrey Skirball-Kenis) Play Collection published Cisterns and Day of the Races
18
4
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.
"A Day of Tilly Biederman," a story [first and second drafts]
1982
19
1
"A Day of Tilly Biederman" was an early version that was later developed into Old Wives Tale
Scenes I-VI (1-6) [drafts]
1982
19
2-4
Final play script
1982
19
5
Georgia Review publication of Old Wives Tale and Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Playwrights Award honorable mention
1983
19
6
Summary of Old Wives Tale and Sweet Tuesday Falls
1984
19
7
Women's project production materials
1984
19
8
English Public House production materials
1986
19
9
University of South Carolina at Spartanburg production materials
1987
19
10
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.
Play script
1990
20
1
Play script revisions
1990-1991
20
2-4
Play script revisions
1995
21
1-3
New Plays in Progress reading
1995
21
4
Plays-in-Progress reading, Utah Shakespearian Festival
1995
21
5
Playscipt revisions
1996
21
6-7
Norfolk Southern Festival production, Virginia
1996-1997
21
8
New Monologues for Mature Actors, see page 50
21
9
Sweet Tuesday Falls
Play scripts
1983-1984
22
1-2
Revision drafts and notes
1985
22
3-4
Play script
1989
22
5
Women In Theatre Network presents 3 one-act plays
1984
22
6
Professional Older Women's Theatre Festival reading, New York, NY
1985
22
7
Theatre Works, Colorado Springs, CO
1986
22
8
Key West Theatre Festival production and reviews
1994
22
9
A Grand Entrance: Scenes and Monologues for Mature Actors
22
10
Stray Dogs
Outlines
23
1
Notes and revisions
23
2-3
Nyda and Wells dialogue drafts
23
4
Act I Scene I [drafts]
1983-1985
23
5
Act I [drafts]
1983-1985
23
6-8
Act II [drafts]
1983-1985
23
9
Act II [drafts]
1983-1985
24
1-2
Complete play script
1984
25
1
Play script developed for St. Mary's Theatre
1984
25
2-3
Play script revision
1984-1986
25
4-5
Shanadoah playwrights retreat production
1985
25
6
Shanan Arts newsletters
1985-1986
25
7
Play script developed for ARENA Stage
1986
25
8
Play script developed for ARENA Stage
1986
26
1-3
ARENA Stage production and reviews
1986
26
4
Announcement of Dramatist Guild/DBS New Plays Program Award, selected by ARENA Stage
1985-1986
26
5
Helen Hayes Award nomination, National Play Award Committee for ARENA Stage Production
1987
26
6
Washington D.C. ARENA Stage general materials
1986
26
7
Play script published by Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York
1987
26
8
University of Delaware production and Ensemble Stage Company production materials, Indiana
1987-1988
26
9
Salt Lake Acting Company reading
1991
26
10
Profiles Theatre in Chicago production materials
1999
26
11
Film script
26
12
Film release
2000-2002
26
13
Props list
26
14
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.
Beginning notes
27
1
Notes and drafts
27
2
Scene I, All Versions.
Notes and drafts
27
3
Scene 2, All Versions
Notes and drafts
27
4
Scene IV in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5
Scene II and III in versions copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
Scenes 1-3
1987
27
5
Notes and drafts
28
1
Scene 3 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7
Notes and drafts
28
2
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.
Notes and drafts
28
3
Scene 7 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5.
Scene 5 in versions copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
Notes and drafts
28
4
Scene 7 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 5.
Scene 5 in version copyrighted 1986, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
Notes and drafts
28
5-6
Scene 4 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
Notes and drafts
28
7
Scene 5 in version copyrighted 1988, Box 29 Fd 6-7.
George Ann and Keitha dialogue notes
29
1
Picnic scene notes
29
2
Doctor's office scene notes
29
3
Miscellaneous scene notes
29
4
Final play script, version 1
1986
29
5
Final play script, version 2
1988
29
6
This play script was read at the Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
Final play script, version 3
revised, 1988
29
7
Letter from Julie Jensen regarding play, 1989
St. Mary's Theatre, Notre Dame production
1987
29
8
Capital Repertory Theatre production, Albany, New York
1988
29
9
Attic Theatre production, Detroit, Michigan and Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre reading
1991-1992
29
10
Pilot episode screenplay for a sit-com
1990
29
11
Pilot draft with edits
June 1990
29
12
First pilot draft, revised
June 1990
29
13
White Money
Early drafts of "Starburst" scene
1969
30
1
"Exit 3 Motel" drafts
30
2
"Sailing to Byzantium" drafts
1988
30
3
Early complete draft
30
4
Final play script
1988
30
5
Play script revised
August 1989
30
6
Play script revised
1989-1990
30
7
The play script was revised in 1989, however handwritten revisions were added in 1990.
Play script
1990
30
8
Salt Lake Acting Company productions, Utah
1990-1992
30
9
Fund for New American Plays Award
1990-1991
1994
30
10
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.
Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre reading, Los Angeles, California
1990
30
11
Play script copyrighted 1989 revised
1991
31
1
Play script copyrighted 1989, revised 1991, published by Plays in Progress
1991
31
2
Last draft
1991
31
3
American Theatre articles
1991-1992
31
4
Mill Mountain Theatre Festival of new works production reviews, Virginia
1992
31
5
Source Theatre production materials, Washington D.C.
1992
31
6
Power House Theatre production materials, Santa Monica, California
1994
31
7
Splitting Image Theatre production materials, Baltimore, Maryland
1994
31
8
Various productions
31
9
White Money Part 1: Snake Eye, page 201, Kenyon Review
1993
31
10
White Money excerpt, page 61, Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes
1999
31
11
Screenplay by Julie Jensen and Peter Frisch
1992
31
12
Two Headed
Early draft and notes
32
1
Drafts
1997
32
2-10
Drafts are organized by the month they were written. Folder Headings identify month.
Play script copyrighted 1997, revised
1998
32
11
Play script, revised
1998 November
33
1
Play script, revised
1999 June
33
2
Professional reading and workshops
1999
33
3
A.S.K. Theatre projects Common Ground Festival production
1999
33
4
Play script, revised
2000
33
5
Women's Project production materials, New York
2000
33
6
Women's Project listings
2000
33
7-8
Women's Project correspondence and receipts
2000
33
9
John Anson Ford Theatre production materials
2001-2002
34
1
Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2000, page 101
2002
34
2
Mountain meadows massacre articles
2002
34
3
Various productions
1997-2006
34
4
Cleveland Public Theatre production materials, Ohio
2007
34
5
Berkshire Theatre Festival production materials, Massachusetts
2007
34
6
Morgan Theatre production materials, Utah State
2012
34
7
The Rose Theatre production materials, London, England
2012
34
8
Play script published by Dramatic Publishing
34
9
Dramatic Publishing catalogue
2002-2005
35
1-2
Screenplay by Paula Cizmar
2005
35
3
Film script by Mary Mara and Veronica Brady
35
4
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.
Notes and drafts
1991
36
1
"How Not To Get Fucked in Less Than Forty Lessons" [drafts]
1990
1993
36
2
"How Not To Get Fucked in Less Than Forty Lessons," The Literary Review and reviews
1991-1992
1994
36
3
"The Greatest Love" [second draft]
1993
36
4
"Wee Kirk O' the Heather" [play script]
1993
36
5
"The Liberace Museum" [play script]
1993
36
6
"The Liberace Museum," page 141, Alaska Quarterly Review
1995
36
7
"The Total Meaning of Real Life" play script and Playwrights and Exile production
1993
36
8
"Total Meaning of Real Life," page 69, published in Lucky 13
1995
36
9
Play script
1993-1994
36
10
"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
Final play script
1994 June
36
11
- "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"
Play script,revised
1995
36
12
Play script, revised
1995
36
13
This play script is slightly different for the play script in box 36 folder 12
Zebra Crossing Theatre production materials, Chicago Illinois
1995-1997
37
1
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.
Play script, revised
1997
37
2
Various production and staged readings
1995-2003
37
3
Play script, revised
2005
37
4
Last Lists of My Mad Mother
Notes
38
1
Early drafts
38
2
Play script
1995
38
3
- "My Mama Don't Eat"
- "Chipmunks"
- "Deer on a Wire"
- "Running Suit and Pink and Gray"
- "Bringing in the Sheep"
Play script
1996
38
4
- "Sassing Sister"
- "My Mama Don't Eat"
- "Deer on a Wire"
- "Running Suit and Pink and Gray"
- "Bringing in the Sheep"
"Deer on a Wire," page 22, published in Parabasis: The Journal of the M.A.S.K. Theatre
1996
38
5
Play script revisions
1996 April-July
38
6-10
Each folder contains a revised play script and is labeled with the date of the revision.
Play script, revised
1997 February
39
1
Mill Mountain Theatre competition materials
1997
39
2
Play script, revised
1997 October
39
3
Carnegie Mellon Drama production materials, Pennsylvania
1997
39
4
Key West Theatre Festival production materials, Florida
1997
39
5
Salt Lake Acting Company production materials, Utah
1997
39
6
"Deer on a Wire," page 45, Kenyon Review
1998
39
7
Play scripts, revised
1998
39
8-9
Theatre Works productions, Hartford Connecticut and New York
1998
39
10
KUED Public Television adaption materials
1999
40
1
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Listing, page 87
1999
40
2
Play script, revised
1999
40
3
Published play script by Dramatic Publishing Company
40
4
A.S.K. (Audrey Skirball-Kenis) Theatre productions
1996-1999
40
5
Hudson Guild production materials, L.A. California
2000
40
6
Shanan Arts production mMaterials, Virginia
2001
40
7
Luna Stage Company production materials, New Jersey
2001
40
8
Pygmalion production at Rose Wagner Theatre materials, SLC, Utah
2011
40
9
Various staged readings and productions
1996-2002
40
10
Theatre Artists Studio production materials, Illinois
40
11
Dramatic Publishing catalogue
2000-2005
40
12-13
Cheat
Notes
41
1
Play script drafts 1-2
1998
41
2-4
Geva Theatre, New York production materials
1999 January
41
5
Play script, draft 3
1999 February
41
6
Working Theatre, New York, production materials and Salt Lake Acting Company play sounding series materials
1999-2000
41
7
Play script, draft 4
2000 January
41
8-9
Playwrights Theatre production, Madison, New Jersey
2000
41
10
Play scripts, drafts 5-8
2000-2001
42
1-4
Key West Theatre Festival production materials, Florida
2001
42
5
Women's Project production materials, New York
2002
42
6
Detroit Repertory Theatre production materials, Michigan
2003
42
7
Play script revised for Pygmalion Theatre
2012
42
8
Pygmalion productions at Rose Wagner Theatre, SLC, Utah
2013
42
9
Wait
Notes and improvisation
2000
43
1
Improvisation, outline, and sample scenes
2000
43
2
Play script draft 1
2000
43
3
No Small Actors publicity
2000
43
4
Play script drafts 2-7
2001-2002
43
5-10
Play script drafts 8-9
2002
44
1-2
Salt Lake Acting Company production materials
2001
2003
44
3
ACT Theatre readings, Seattle, Washington
2002
44
4
Play scripts published by Dramatic Publishing
2003
44
5
Cleveland Public Theatre production materials, Ohio
2003
44
6
Perseverance Theatre production materials, Alaska and Kitchen Dog Theatre materials, Texas
2004
44
7
National showcase of new plays production materials, Chicago Illinois
2004
44
8
Various productions
2004-2005
44
9
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
Draft 1
2001
45
1
Draft 2
2002
45
2
Draft 2 revised
2002
45
3
This draft is the same as found in folder 2, but has hand-written notes and edits.
Draft 3
2003
45
4
Draft 4
2003
45
5
Draft 5
2005
45
6
Playwrights Theatre production announcements, Madison, New Jersey
2010
45
7
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 .
Research
46
1-2
Scene 1 drafts
46
3
Scene 2 drafts
46
4
Scene 3 drafts
46
5
Scene 4 drafts
46
6
Working draft, scene 2-7
2003
46
7
Draft 2
2003 April
46
8
Draft 3
2003 June
46
9
Draft 4
2003 September
46
10
Draft 4
2003 September
47
1
This draft contains notes and edits not in the draft from box 46 folder 10.
Draft 5
2004 January
47
2-3
Draft 5 revision
47
4
Draft 6
2004 May
47
5
Draft 7
2004 July
47
6
Playwrights Theatre production materials, Utah
2003-2004
47
7
Draft 9, post production
2005 June
47
8
Play script published by Dramatic Publishing
2005
47
9
Salt Lake Acting Company production materials
2005
47
10
PEN USA Literary Award letter
2006
47
11
Productions
2007
47
12
Borderlands Theatre Production Materials, Tucson, Arizona and New Works Festival Ticket Stubs, Idaho.
Lincoln Square Theatre production materials, Chicago, Illinois
2008
47
13
Billion Dollar Baby
Drafts 3-10
2006-2007
48
1-7
Festival of New Works production materials, Moscow, Idaho
2007
48
8
Salt Lake Acting Company production materials, Utah
2007
48
9
Salt Lake Acting Company reviews
2007
48
10
Various productions
48
11
She's Was My Brother
Early drafts
49
1
Drafts 1-7
2008
49
2-7
Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) and Page-to-Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center production materials
2008
49
8
Montana Theatre production materials
2009
49
9
Borderlands Theatre production materials, Tucson, Arizona
2009
49
10
Draft 8-9
2009-2010
50
1-2
Plan B. Theatre production materials, SLC, Utah
2010
50
3
Mockingbird
Drafts
2013
51
1-2
Reading, Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
2013
51
3
Short plays and play collaborations
You Always Get What You Want and Rapture
52
1
"Free Market"
2001
52
2
Review of The Robber Groom, page 6E
2001
52
3
Water Lilies
2001-2002
52
4
Published in
Cabbies, Cowboys, and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin, page 60.
"Snapshot," Humana Festival of New American Plays
2002
2010
52
5
Play Scripts, Inc.
2003-2005
52
6
Contains Announcements for
Snapshot and On Lincoln's Head.
Blitzkrieg or How We Went to War production materials
2004
2006
52
7
Neon Mirage, Humana Film Festival
2006
52
8
Neon Mirage, page 347-400
2006
52
9
Harvey Girls [draft 2]
2009
53
1
Harvey Girls [draft 10]
53
2
Harvey Girls, Dramatic Publishing publication
2010
53
3
Harvey Girls, Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) Fearless Fringe Festival production
2010
53
4
Margo and Me, drafts
2010-2011
53
5-7
The Brown Shoes, Gordon College, Massachusetts
2011
53
8
"An Evening of Scenes by Julie Jensen," Utah State University
2012
53
9
Public Humiliation
2012
53
10
Christmas with Misfits [drafts]
circa 2012
53
11-12
Christmas with Misfits reading at Western Michigan University
2012
53
13
"The Hilltop of Amy Owens" [drafts]
54
1-5
"Chloe" [notes]
54
6
"Lost Vager Play" [notes]
54
7
"Rubber Guy"
54
8
Playwriting publications
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.
Publication list
1996-1997
55
1
Early drafts
circa 1994
55
2
Publication version
1994
55
3
Published versions
1996-1997
55
4
Revised edition
2005
55
5
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.
"American Female Dramatists: Show But No Go?," page 78 from the Annual GLCA Women's Studies Conference
1982
56
1
"Creating Original Characters," page 16
circa 1992
56
2
"the Life of a Playwright?," page 167
1991
56
3
Published essays
1994
56
4
"Old Whores and Aging Playwrights," page 85-86.
"Writer's Block," page 4.
"Character," page 6.
"A Modest Proposal," page 4-5
"The Los Angeles Perspective," and "Where O' Where has Diversity Gone"
1996
1999
56
5
"The Devil's in the Rewrite"
1999
56
6
Playwriting Brief and Brilliant [drafts and published version]
2007
56
7
Review of Playwriting Brief and Brilliant, page 46-47
2008
56
8
"Making a Career as a Playwright Outside of New York," page 24
2010
56
9
"National Reports: Utah," page 65
2012
56
10
"National Reports: Utah," page 68
2012
56
11
Moving Out Volume 4 No. 2
1974
56
12
Julie Jensen served as one of the Editors for this publication.
That Rocky Place
1996
56
13
Julie Jensen served as the illustrator for this publication.
Chunk A' Change
2000
56
14
Julie Jensen wrote the Preface for this publication.
Royalty statements
2009-2012
56
15
Articles written about Julie Jensen as a playwright
These are articles others wrote about Julie Jensen and her career as a playwright.
"Julie Jensen Living Las Vegas," page 52
1997
57
1
"Is Writing Your Main Source of Income," page 6-7
1998
57
2
"Scripting Success," page 18-21
1999
57
3
"Julie Jensen: Give Us This Day," page 177
2000
57
4
"Speaking Up: The Voices of Julie Jensen"
2001
57
5
"A Conversation with Julie Jensen," page 30
2001
57
6
"Interviews with Artists," page 18
2002
57
7
"Playwrights call Proposed Theatre Complex Unrealistic," page 1
2011
57
8
Playwriting organization involvement
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.
Lake Michigan College class visit
1987
58
1
Thurber House
1994
58
2
Playwright Practical Lab, "Unconscious Intercourse"
1995
58
3
Women's Project and productions
1997-2002
58
4
"Saving the American Theatre," Washington University
2000
58
5
Writers at Work
2003-2004
58
6
"An Evening of New Play Previews," The Kennedy Center
1991
58
7
"Jerusalem Son," Festival of New Plays, The Kennedy Center
1999
58
8
Kennedy Center workshops
2006, 2009-2010
58
9
"Project Fabulocity"
2006
58
10
Native voices at the Autry
2010-2013
58
11
Various workshops
1994-2011
58
12
Dramaturg for the Asylum Theatre, Las Vegas, Nevada
58
13
Florida Keys Honorary Conch Award
58
14
Shanan Arts correspondence/newsletters
1984-1996
58
15
College of American Theatre Fellows
1994
2002-2013
58
16-17
General professional materials
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.
Papers used for "Sue's Book"
59
1
Sue's Book, edited by Julie Jensen
59
2
Materials on the death of Mary Asu
59
3
Student essays
59
4
Book edited by Julie Jensen
59
5
"Whistler's Mother's Son" by L.L. West
2000
59
6
General newsletters
1992-2003
59
7
General playbills
59
8-9
General reviews
59
10
General personal materials
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.
Personal correspondence
60
1
Personal documents
1971
1975
60
2
Birthday cards and personal notes
60
3
Christmas cards
60
4
Announcements
1986
1999-2000
2008
60
5
Weddings, Funeral, and Births.
Beaver County newspapers
1992-1996
60
6
Presidential election materials
1968
60
7
Materials supporting Gene McCarthy.
An Occupational Survey of Former Students of Vocational Agriculture of Beaver High School, thesis by Well S. Farrer
1964
60
8
General materials, California
60
9
General materials
60
10
Blank calendars
60
11