Julie Marino

Playwright, Storyteller

I believe in the transformative power of storytelling. Since humans began to speak, storytelling has been how we discover, how we learn, how we understand, how we create and transcend. It’s how we construct our world and our selves. We remember the stories we tell about our lives; we invent our lives in the remembering. We make the stories. We are the stories. And they never really end.

Julie Marino, at her desk in New York City

On stage & on the page

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Now showing

Welcome to Paradise

Set on the fictional island of St. Sebastian — premiered at the Purple Rose Theatre in 2019, performed over 100 times across the U.S. and Canada.

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Coming Soon

Pattern Recognition

Three short comedies about people finding meaning, connection, and certainty in places where they may—or may not—actually exist.

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New & In Development

The Further Adventures of Steamboat Willie

It’s Mickey and Minnie like you’ve never seen them before. A new stage play in homage to the legendary Mouse.

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Off Book

Short, strange & exploratory

Monologues, mini-plays, stories, fragments, experiments, and other things that refuse to behave. Read, listen, wander.

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A moody 1930s cocktail bar, the spiritual home of Off Book