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...Julia Jarcho...
...were going to try to think of ways to say things that weren’t familiar” is how longtime friend Ezekiel W. Reich ’03 remembers an assignment in the seventh-grade writing club that Julia Jarcho led. “Then and now, I think Julia understood clearly the deep emotional and intellectual importance of newness...
Since then, Jarcho has found many new things to say and ways to say them—mostly in theater. Nursery, the play this New York City native wrote at age 17, was selected from 1,500 entries to be performed off-Broadway at the Young Playwrights Festival. The New York Times called it “terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer,” and Seventeen magazine featured her alongside Josh Hartnett and Venus Williams as one of Seventeen Voices for a New World. She’s also appeared in numerous plays put on by downtown...
...Jarcho brings her own directing style to this production. Always forcing her actors to “make it new,” Jarcho disdains the idea of “going into character.” Rather, she challenges her actors to be with the audience. They should not retreat or build a fourth wall when acting. During rehearsals, at one point Jarcho has two characters deliver their lines as though every line were the punch line to a joke. Though Lightbody fusses about this method (“There are some things that I just want...
Though excited to present the play to an audience, Jarcho is not overly concerned with its reception. “I’m just going to throw it down and see how people react…It’d be great if they got a little freaked out,” she says, smiling...