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JULIA MEINWALD's music for theatre has been heard at 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.) She was a 2009-2010 Dramatists Guild fellow, where she developed Pregnancy Pact with her collaborator Gordon Leary.  Pregnancy Pact received the 2011 Weston Playhouse New Musical Award and enjoyed two sold out concerts at Ars Nova. The show was also selected for the Yale Institute of Musical Theatre, and will receive a workshop in New Haven this summer under the direction of Mark Brokaw.   Julia's one-act musical, Disappeared, also with Gordon Leary, was produced at Prospect Theatre Company and received a workshop as part of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. She is developing a musical called Le Fou with lyricist Rob Shapiro and playwright Bekah Brunstetter, and her musical Jack Perry Is Alive (and Dating!) with Harrison Rivers and Daniella Shoshan is a 2011 NYMF Next Link selection.  You can hear Julia’s 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 dance show commission from Mark Morris dancer John Heginbothom premiered at Joe's Pub in 2010.  Julia's 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 2012.  A proud participant in the New Dramatists 2008 Composer Librettist Development Program, Julia was also a resident artist with American Lyric Theatre.  She received her BA in music from Yale University and her MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.