Julie McCormick s a freelance dramaturg and writing consultant who has worked with theaters across the Bay Area including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Crowded Fire, Just Theater, Theatre First, and Bay Area Children’s Theatre. As the literary associate at Berkeley Rep, she dramaturged productions of Red, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and Tribes; she has also worked on the world premieres of Lauren Gunderson’s Fire Work at Theatre First and Amelia Roper’s She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange at Crowded Fire. Julie was the 2011-2012 Peter Sloss Literary/Dramaturgy Fellow at Berkeley Rep, and she holds a B.A. from Carleton College.