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Biography
JULIA MEINWALD is a composer for musicals, film, and the occasional computer game score. Her musicals with collaborator Gordon Leary include Pregnancy Pact (2012 premiere production at the Weston Playhouse with director Joe Calarco, 2011 NAMT conference and Yale Institute for Musical Theatre selection with director Mark Brokaw), The Loneliest Girl in the World (2018 premiere production at Diversionary Theatre with director Matt Morrow, 2016 NAMT Festival with director Michael Berresse, 2015 workshop production at Philadelphia's UARTS with director Ben Kamine, 2014 OutLoud reading with Ars Nova and 4x15 presentation at the Musical Theatre Factory with director Portia Krieger), REB + VoDKa + ME (2018 Opera America Grant Supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, 2017 workshop production with the New Studio on Broadway/Tisch NYU, 2017 YIMT alumni residency, 2017 4x15 presentation at the musical Theatre Factory, 2016 Mercer Colony writers retreat at Goodspeed, 2015-2016 Civilians R&D group) and Galaxy Comics (2014 United Airlines in-flight programming). Jack Perry is Alive (and Dating), her musical with Harrison Rivers and Daniella Shoshan, was a NYMF Next Link selection in 2011. Elevator Heart, her show with Sara Cooper and Amy Burgess, was a 2016 Queens Council on the Arts grant recipient and received workshops at the Tank in 2017 and as part of the New Studio On Broadway/Tisch NYU 2016 fall season.
Julia's music has been heard at the 54 Below (Pregnancy Pact in Concert and New Writers Series:The songs of Julia Meinwald and Gordon Leary), Arts Nova (Uncharted), Dixon Place (The Magnificent Seven), Joe's Pub (Cast and Loose), Rockwood Music Hall (stage 1: It's Amazing We Are Loved at All and My Baby Will Keep Me Warn), Urban Stages (Winter Rhythms Series) the York Theatre (NEO5), the Cherry Lane Theatre (Edgewise), Barrington Stages (Bill Finn Presents Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists That You've Probably Never Heard of But Should), Goodspeed Opera House (Shelter), and the Hangar Theatre (The Adventures of Haarlem Berlin.) You can also hear her music on the internet sitcom Inconvenient Molly as well as in the score to short films featuring Josh Gad (The Losers), Matt Walsh (Breast Picture) and Mary Louise Parker (Wing Woman.) Her full-orchestra score for the computer game The Judgment of Quintus was recorded by the Davenport Pops, and the game is expected for release in 2019. You can download computer games for which Julia wrote the music here.
A proud participant in the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Development Program, Julia was also a resident artist with American Lyric Theatre, a Dramatists Guild fellow, an inaugural Uncharted Resident with Ars Nova, and a member of the Civilians' R&D Group, Page 73's Interstate 73, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground group, the Musical Theatre Factory's Lerner and Loewe writers group, and the 92nd Street Y Musical Theatre Lab Collective. She's a recipient of the Opera America Discovery Grant, Supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and an Anna Sosenko Trust grant, and productions of her work have received grants from the Dramatist Guild Foundation and the NEA. She has been a finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant, the Richard Rodgers Award, and the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, and was the winner of the 2011 Weston Playhouse New Musical Award for Pregnancy Pact. Julia received her BA in music from Yale University and her MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | Opera Grants for Women Composers: Discovery Grants | 2018 |
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