Judy Klass

Senior Lecturer/Dual Appointment in Jewish Studies

Judy Klass is a Truman Scholar. Eight of her full-length plays and forty-two of her one-act plays have been produced onstage; her short plays have gone up all over the country as well as in the UK, Ireland and Canada. Her produced full-length play Cell was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. Her dystopian science fiction full-length play in verse After Tartuffe was in the Fresh Fruit Festival in NYC and is published by Next Stage press. Her play Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition in the Full-Length Category and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania in 2019. In 2021 it was produced as a Zoom recording/podcast by Quarantine Players. Three of Judy’s short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Her short plays have appeared in anthologies like The Art of the One-Act. Long ago, Judy wrote an original-series Star Trek novel published by Pocket Books. She co-wrote the Showtime cable film adaptation of Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies. Her original screenplay Au Pair Girl was optioned four times; she turned it into a YA book published by a small press. Three books of her poems have been published by small presses. Her poems have appeared in Piedmont Literary Review, Shenandoah, Slant, Pivot, Faultline, the Brooklyn Review, Ship of Fools, iota, and the Long Island Quarterly, among other places. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Magazine, Wind Magazine, Muse & Stone, Phoebe, Bryant Literary Review, Satire, Space & Time, The Courtship of Winds and Albedo One, among other places. As a songwriter, she co-wrote Maine Mendoza’s hit song/video in the Philippines called “Lost With You,” and has cuts with Filipino artists such as Ariel Rivera, Eurika and Rachelle Ann Go. She co-wrote a Euro dance club hit called “Disappear,” sung by Adara, and has cuts in the US with artists and bands such as Coyote Crude, Hilda Lamas, Simon Kirke (the drummer in Bad Company), Brandon Maddox and Iron Cowboy. She co-wrote nine songs in the musical comedy film Cooking for Two, shot in Hong Kong and available on Tubi TV.