Julie Hébert

Julie Hébert is an award-winning writer/director/producer of television, film and theater. Of Cajun descent, she grew up on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Hébert has written and directed such hit shows as American Crime (2015), Boss (2011), The West Wing (1999), ER (1994), among other shows. She wrote the screenplays for Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001), starring Angela Bassett, and Female Perversions (1996), starring Tilda Swinton, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Her work for film has been praised as "intriguingly complex" (Variety) and "pulsing with veracity" (LA Times), with "a raw power that is impossible to dismiss" (Roger Ebert). She has won accolades for her television work, including a George Foster Peabody Award, a Prism Award, an Environmental Media Award, as well as being nominated for the Emmy and WGA awards. Hébert started her creative life as a theater director in San Francisco and was fortunate to work extensively with Sam Shepard. She met him at the Eureka Theater while directing his play Cowboy Mouth, which he wrote with Patti Smith. She oversaw the direction of Shepard's award-winning New York production of "Fool for Love", starring Ed Harris and Kathy Baker. She went on to direct the Steppenwolf production of Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind", and an award-winning production of "Fool for Love" with Moses Gunn and Pam Grier at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She also took the play on tour throughout Japan. Hébert has directed plays by David Mamet, Caryl Churchill, Dario Fo, José; Rivera, Lucinda Coxon, Heiner Muller, and others at some of the most daring theaters throughout the country.