Photo by Ryan Nava

Photo by Ryan Nava

About

Julianne Wick Davis (composer, lyricist) received the Jonathan Larson Award winner, the Ziegfeld Award for Outstanding Female Musical Theatre Composer, and was named one of the Fifty Women to Watch in 2021 by the Broadway Woman’s Fund. The musical TREVOR (music) with Dan Collins, was produced at Writer’s Theatre and won the Jefferson Award for Best New Musical. TREVOR also received an off-Broadway production at Stage 42 which is now streaming on Disney+. Southern Comfort (music) with Collins, was produced at The Public Theatre (NY Times Critic’s Pick) and nominated for a Lortel award for best musical. It was also presented at Barrington Stage Company; NAMT; CAP21 (GLAAD Media Award), and was a Time Out NYC and NY Times Critic’s Pick. THE PEN (music) with Collins, for Inner Voices 2016 was also a NY Times Critic’s Pick.

THE WILLARD SUITCASE (book, music, lyrics), was presented at the American Shakespeare Center, and was named in the Top 10 Theatrical Events by the Washington Post, as well as featured in Broadway Close Up at Merkin Hall. WHEN WE MET (music & lyrics) with Collins, was a part of the O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, workshop production at CAP21, and was part of Broadway Close Up at Merkin Hall. LAUTREC AT THE ST. JAMES (music) with John Dieterich was a part of the NAMT Conference, and also was the first show to be a part of the Olney Theatre Applause Concert Series. Harold & Lillian (music) with Collins, in collaboration with Annette O’Toole and Michael McKean was selected for the South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival.

WILD CHILD (music) with Dan Marshall was a part of the Sheridan College Musical Development Project, and received a world premiere production at Laguna Playhouse. Additional work includes: AT THE MET (music and lyrics) for Lonny Price’s Lincoln Center Originals; WEAR YOU and “DOWN A THAILAND DRAIN (words and music) for Shakina’s Manifest Pussy.

Julianne was a Dramatist Guild Fellow and a Sundance Fellow at UCross. She has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and is the Program Director for Berklee NYC’s Writing and Production for Musical Theatre.