Julie Klausner

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Julie Klausner is a writer, actor and comedian who lives in New York City with a fantastic cat. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Time Out New York, and in OpEds on The Huffington Post.  She recently sold a memoir to Gotham Books, a division of Penguin, tentatively titled I Don't Care About Your Band, which is scheduled for release in Spring 2010. Julie's TV writing credits include The Big Gay Sketch Show on LOGO, Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse on SNL, and the internet shorts Welcome To Our House, Mommy Time, and Cat News. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in McSweeney's Future Dictionary of America, The Stranger, Heeb and the New York Dog Magazine. Julie's on-air credits include stints on various VH1 clip shows, Jon Glaser 's Adult Swim show, Delocated, Starveillance on E! and bit parts on SNL , Conan, and Strangers With Candy. She's appeared in many shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, including Free To Be Friends and The Chipperton Family Vocal-tainers' Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour, an official selection of the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and she played "Abortion Girl" in Les Freres Corbusier's Drama Desk Award-nominated production of Hell House. Currently, Julie co-hosts the monthly live show, OBSESSED with Julie and Jackie at UCB, and stars alongside David Rakoff as Daryl Van Hampton in Wasp Cove, a live soap opera she writes with Rachel Shukert that appears in episodic installations at Comix. She also sings with Losers Lounge, NYC's venerable tribute concert series, and blogs regularly on her own site, which is, predictably, julieklausner.com.  

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