Julia Izumi's plays include Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons/WP Theater), miku, and the gods. (ArtsWest), and Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea (Rorschach Theater). Select development: Manhattan Theatre Club, WP Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop. Past memberships & residencies: Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group, New Georges Audrey Residency, The COOP's Clusterf**k, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm. Awards and honors: OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. Current New Dramatists Resident and LMCC Workspace Resident. Current commissions: True Love Productions, MTC/Sloan, Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Rep 20x30. MFA: Brown University.