Ms Julia Pascal
Julia Pascal is an award-winning playwright and theatre director. Her plays; which include The Holocaust Trilogy, Crossing Jerusalem, The Golem, The Yiddish Queen Lear and Woman in the Moon; are published by Oberon Books. These have been produced widely in Britain, mainland Europe and the USA. She has been Writer in Residence at the University of York and The Wiener Library as well as a NESTA Dreamtime Fellow. A regular broadcaster for the BBC she also writes for The Independent, The Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times. She teaches theatre and writing at City University, Birkbeck College, St Lawrence University and AHA. As Director of Pascal Theatre Company she produces new stage work. Most recently the Company premiered a radical version of The Merchant of Venice and developed a DVD archive called Jewish Mothers and Daughters as a major educational resource. Currently she is writing a new play set in New York.