
Julie
Klausner is a writer, actor and comedian who lives in New York City. Her
recent writing credits include a piece for
Modern Love in the
New
York Times, an article about the
diet book
Skinny Bitch
for
Salon.com,
a piece about
Christopher
Hitchens for the Huffington Post, and a
'video
about diet fads that she wrote and starred in for
'236.com.
Julie 's TV writing credits include
The
Big Gay Sketch Show on LOGO, Robert Smigel 's
TV Funhouse on
SNL , and popular internet shows including
'Welcome To Our House,
'Mommy Time
and
Cat News',
which was featured in
Entertainment Weekly before being licensed to the
Fuse
network. Her new web show,
What 's What, which she wrote with cartoonist
Michael Kupperman, debuts on
Superdeluxe.com
next month. Her writing has appeared in
Time Out New York,
Heeb
, and
The Huffington Post, which regularly runs her
OpEds,
and on her blog,
All That Klausner. Julie 's comic
book,
Animal Party, counts among
its fans Patton Oswalt and Dave Eggers, and her comics and illustrations
have appeared in McSweeney's
Future Dictionary of America,
The
Stranger,
Heeb and
'The
New York Dog Magazine. Her on-air credits include stints on various
VH1 clip shows, Jon Glaser 's Adult Swim show,
Delocated,
Starveillance
on E! and bit parts on
SNL ,
Conan, and
Strangers With
Candy. She's appeared in many shows at the
Upright
Citizens Brigade Theater, including her 1970s Lesbian Children's Show
Spectacular,
'Free To Be Friends',
which went on to become an official selection of the 2006
NY
International Fringe Festival. Other theater credits include Julie's
turn as her own Streisand-belting unborn child in
The Chipperton Family
Vocal-tainers' Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour, which was an official selection
of the
2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and as "Abortion
Girl" in
Les Freres Corbusier's Drama Desk Award-nominated
production of
Hell House. Currently, Julie co-hosts the monthly
live show,
OBSESSED with Julie
and Jackie, a variety show themed around obsession, and stars
alongside David Rakoff as Daryl Van Hampton in
Wasp Cove, a live soap opera
she writes with Rachel Shukert that appears in episodic installations
at Comix. She also sings with
'Losers Lounge, NYC's venerable tribute
concert series, and her voice can also be heard in guest appearances on
The Best Show on WFMU with Tom
Scharpling,
The Jake and Jackie Show
on Free FM, and on David Cross' and Jon Benjamin's defunct Comedy Central
cartoon series,
Freak Show.
Julie holds an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and
a BA from NYU.