
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.