Julie Klausner is a writer, actor and comedian who lives in New York City. Currently, she is at work writing her first book for Gotham Books (Penguin USA) called I Don't Care About Your Band, scheduled for release in Spring of 2010. Her writing credits include various charticles and wrap-ups for NYMag.com, a piece for Modern Love in the New York Times, and an article about the diet book Skinny Bitch for Salon.com. Julie's TV writing credits include The Big Gay Sketch Show on LOGO, Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse on SNL, and internet shorts including Welcome To Our House, Mommy Time and Cat News, which was featured in Entertainment Weekly. Her web show, What 's What which she wrote with cartoonist Michael Kupperman, runs on Superdeluxe.com, and her writing has also appeared in Time Out New York, Heeb, The Huffington Post, 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 including Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins and A2Z, Jon Glaser's Delocated pilot, Starveillance, Fat Guy Stuck In the Internet, 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. With Jackie Clarke, Julie co-hosted the monthly live show OBSESSED with Julie and Jackie, and currently stars alongside co-creator Rachel Shukert in Wasp Cove, a live episodic soap opera. She occasionally sings with Losers Lounge, NYC's venerable tribute concert series, and her voice can be heard in guest appearances on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling, David Cross' and Jon Benjamin's defunct Comedy Central cartoon series, Freak Show, and on various radio commercials in heavy rotation on 1010 WINS. Julie holds an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from NYU. She teaches sketch and essay writing at the UCB Theater, and she is a demon on the dance floor.