Julia Fisher
Julia Fisher (she/her) is a playwright and intimacy director whose work has been seen in professional theatres throughout Cleveland, Akron, Chicago, Knoxville, and beyond. Julia has had original works commissioned, developed, and/or produced by Rubber City Theatre, Seat of the Pants, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Local, Radio on the Lake Theatre, First Take Co., BorderLight Fringe Festival, the Twinsburg Public Library, and Eclectic Full Contact Theatre. She has been a playwright-in-residence at both Radio on the Lake Theatre and Spark! Theatre 4 Youth, and she is in her sixth year of membership with the Young Playwrights Collective. She is a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the BorderLight Fringe Festival Producers’ Choice Award, and the Near West Theatre Emerging Artist Award, and she and her two collaborators were named 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalists for Musical Theater for their work on a new musical about Amelia Earhart.