Julia Cho desert memories: landscape--and a sense of place--loom large in the work of a rising young playwright.(profiles)(Interview)

American Theatre, April, 2005 by Rno, Sung

I first met Julia Cho at a birthday party for Kaipo Schwab, artistic director of Imua! Theatre Company in New York City. Fittingly enough, it was at a bar called the Playwright's Tavern. My first impression was that Julia was smart, quietly funny and extremely observant. Having seen her plays, which include 99 Histories and The Architecture of Loss, I can say that her writing evinces these same qualities, along with a poetic sense of loss and characters who ache for a larger sense of being.

Julia grew up in Los Angeles County but spent her formative years in Arizona, and the desert has had a strong influence on her writing. After her years in the Southwest, she made her way east, to Amherst for college and to New York City for graduate work at New York...

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