Julia Jarcho is a playwright and director and a scholar of modern theater, literature, and critical theory. Her newest book is Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (September 2024, University of Chicago Press). Jarcho puts on plays with her NYC company, Minor Theater. Shows include Marie It's Time (HERE, 2022), Pathetic (Abrons Arts Center 2019), Grimly Handsome (Incubator 2013/ Royal Court Theatre 2017), The Terrifying (Abrons 2017), Every Angel is Brutal (Clubbed Thumb 2016), Nomads (Incubator 2014), Dreamless Land (New York City Players/Abrons 2011), and American Treasure (13P 2009). Awards include an OBIE for Best New American Play (Grimly Handsome) and a Doris Duke Impact Award. Her book Minor Theater: Three Plays is available from 53rd State and her critical writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, Critical Inquiry, Modern Drama, and in her first book Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She is the Head of Playwriting at Brown.
