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JULIA MEINWALD's music 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, where it received a workshop in New Haven under the direction of Mark Brokaw, and then for the 2011 NAMT conference. It will receive its premiere production at the Weston Playhouse in the summer of 2012 under the direction of Joe Calarco.  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. Jack Perry is Alive (and Dating), her musical with Harrison Rivers and Daniella Shoshan, was a NYMF Next Link selection in 2011. Julia is also developing a musical called Le Fou with lyricist Rob Shapiro and playwright Bekah Brunstetter.  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.