Julia Lederer

Julia Lederer is an internationally acclaimed writer from Toronto. She started as a playwright and has had productions of her work across the world: in Los Angeles, Chicago, Alaska, Paris, Vancouver, Brighton, Texas, New York, Toronto, etc. For television, she was selected from over 800 applications to work on the fourth season of Kim's Convenience as part of CBC's Emerging Writers Room in 2018. She has written four short films, that continue to screen all over the world, at festivals including TIFF, Aesthetica, Cinequest, Atlantic International Film Festival, Breakthroughs, ETC. She is currently adapting her hit play WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN into a feature film. "A brash, poetic, and fiercely original voice." - NOW Magazine "Lederer has a deliciously twisted way with words." - Chicago Stage Standard