BPS 182: Inside Pixar's Brain Trust Turning Red with Julia Cho

Award-winning playwright and co-writer of Pixar’s TURNING RED,
Julia Cho was born and raised in the arid suburbs of Southern
California and Arizona. After a fairly uneventful childhood, she
unexpectedly discovered theater as a teen and subsequently foiled
her parents’ expectations of a life of respectability and
normalcy.

Instead, armed with an MFA in writing from NYU and a prestigious
fellowship at The Juilliard School, Julia launched herself into the
New York theater scene. She soon landed residencies at the Sundance
Lab and New Dramatists and productions at high-profile theaters in
NYC and across the country. Memorable productions include “The
Language Archive” (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award),
“Aubergine” and “Office Hour.” For her body of work, she received
the 2020 Windham-Campbell Literary Prize for Drama which wrote:
“Alternately lyrical and sharp, rigorous and whimsical, Cho’s plays
demand that we listen.”

Alongside her theatrics, Cho has also cultivated a career as a
writer and producer of a broad range of television shows from cult
sci-fi (“Fringe”) to character-driven drama (“Big Love,” “Halt and
Catch Fire”). She also adapted the critically-acclaimed novel The
Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO and Starz, which showcased her
ability to transform eloquent fiction into dynamic and propulsive
narrative.

Driven by keen curiosity and a passion for language, Julia strives
to create work that expands our worlds and sparks our deepest
empathies. She’s currently under commission for South Coast
Repertory to write a new play and is a Co-Executive Producer for
the Amazon series, “Paper Girls.” In other words, she’s following a
movie about four thirteen-year-old girls with a series about four
twelve-year-old girls. A project about four eleven-year-old girls
is forthcoming.

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