Julia Pascal PhD trained as an actor. As a member of the National Theatre, London, she adapted and directed the writings of Dorothy Parker for a Platform Performance called Men Seldom Make Passes. She was the first woman to direct at the NT. Her playwriting career includes over 15 works which have been seen in the UK, Europe and the USA. The Holocaust Trilogy, Theresa, reveals the collaboration of the Channel Island governments with the Nazis during World War II. Pascal adapted it for the radio in l996 after it won a BBC Alfred Bradley Prize. As The Road to Paradise it was broadcast in 1996 and 1997 and nominated for the Sony Prize.

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Her plays include, The Dybbuk (inspired by S. Anski’s original) and A Dead Woman on Holiday which were produced in London and on the European mainland over two decades. The Yiddish Queen Lear at Southwark Playhouse. At The Arcola Theatre, she directed her text Woman in the Moon which exposed Wernher von Braun’s space research as having been developed in the German concentration camp Dora as well as her interpretation of The Merchant of Venice entitled The Shylock Play. The Tricycle Theatre commissioned Crossing Jerusalem, her first play about Israel. She directed the second production at the Park Theatre. Honeypot staged at The New Diorama Theatre dramatizes the use of women revenge agents after after the Munich Olympics. Investigating the trauma of former soldiers her 2013 text Nineveh, premiered a Riverside Studios. St Joan which challenges the historical imperative of slavery and Shoah was staged at The Edinburgh Festival and toured internationally. Currently she is researching a new play about Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Salomon when both were imprisoned in Gurs internment camp. Her awards include a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science and the Arts. She is published by Oberon Books, Faber and Samuel French (Inc).