Julia Jordan is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter.
[1] Jordan was born in Chicago and spent much of her early life in Minnesota.
While attending Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater[2] for acting, she was inspired to begin writing for the stage.
Several of Jordan's plays were staged during the late 1990s and early 2000s earning critical praise.
Jordan is a founder and the executive director of The Lillys, created in 2010 to honor female playwrights and address the shortage of plays by women that get produced in the United States.