Julie Hébert

Julie Hébert is an award-winning writer and director of television, film and theater.Julie has written and directed for hit shows ER, The West Wing, Third Watch and Numb3rs, and written the screenplay for "Ruby's Bucket of Blood," based on her play, and "Female Perversions," starring Tilda Swinton, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.Julie's 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 many awards for her television work, including a George Foster Peabody Award, Prism Award, and an Environmental Media Award.Julie 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. Julie oversaw the direction of Shepard's award-winning New York production of Fool for Love, starring Ed Harris and Kathy Baker, and later Will Patton, Aidan Quinn and Bruce Willis. She went on to direct the Steppenwolf production of A Lie of the Mind, and an award-winning production of Fool for Love with Pam Grier at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She also took the play on tour throughout Japan.Specializing as a director of new work, Julie 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.Julie grew up on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and considers herself "7/8ths Cajun." Show less «