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By Lori Crochet-Dore Special to the Rappahannock News
The Virginia Commission for the Arts has announced that Julie Portman is the recipient of a 2006 Fellowship in Playwnting. The Fellowship is awarded every seven years to support and encourage the creative work of playwrights who reside in Virginia.
Julie, a resident of Rappahannock County for the past 20 years, is the founder and Artistic Director of Ki Theatre. Prior to coming to Virginia, Julie was Artistic Director of Theatre Workshop in Boston and artist in residence at Tufts University. Julie’s career in theatre spans 35 years as a director, actor, playwright, and artistic director of three professional theatre companies.
In her role as playwright, Julie has written ten plays ranging from large interdisciplinary ensemble pieces to solo performance works. RIOT, awarded a New York Obie for its Off Broadway run, explores racial tensions in the sixties; Conference of the Birds, is a multi-media adaptation of the 12th century Persian allegory. Portman has written a trilogy of family stories exploring the warm, contentious, humorous and often touching every day realities of family life. Her most recent play Three Roses, interweaves the life of a playwright with those of three women who transform harsh realities of life into heroic adventures. It has been broadcast on public television.
There have been two thousand productions of Julie’s plays in major cities and communities across the United States, Canada and in Africa. In addition to a New York Obie, Julie received a Fulbright artist-at large award and spent two years in India studying the classical Indian theatre called Kathakali. She is a recipient of an Interdisciplinary Artists award (through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation), the Massachusetts Council for
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