C. Julian Jiménez
Playwright, 2018 Conference Playwright, PlayPenn Teaching Artist
C. Julian Jiménez (he/they) is a Queer Puerto Rican and Dominican writer who refuses the pressures of respectability. Their work confronts a society obsessed with binaries, celebrating Queerness as its own radical norm. Their creative nonfiction is published in Divagations Magazine: Experiments in Life Writing and Fruit—Queer Literary Journal, and their plays are published by TRW Plays.
Playwriting awards: New Dramatist Residency (Class of 2027), Rita Goldberg Playwrights' Workshop Fellow at The Lark (2019/2020), Pipeline Theatre Company PlayLab (2017 & 2018), LaGuardia Community College’s LGBTQ History Project Grant (2018), Queens Arts Council Grant (2015), and The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group (2009). Productions: Man Boobs (Pride Films & Plays, 2011), Animals Commit Suicide (First Floor Theater, 2015), Locusts Have No King (INTAR, 2016), Bundle of Sticks (INTAR, 2020), and Alligator Mouth, Tadpole Ass (Theatre Rhinoceros, 2020), ¡OSO FABULOSO! & The Bear Backs (Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 2021), and Bruise & Thorn (Pipeline Theatre Company, 2022).
Julian is Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Department of Communication, Theater, & Media Production at Queensborough Community College. Bold, unapologetic, and rooted in lived experience, their writing challenges the narratives that seek to contain Queer bodies.