C. Julian Jiménez is a Queer, Puerto Rican, and Dominican playwright. They hold an MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama. Julian is a Professor of Theatre at Queensborough Community College and the Chairperson of the Department of Communication, Theatre, & Media Production. Their work is published through TRW plays. Playwriting awards include: New Dramatist Residency (Class of 2025), Rita Goldberg Playwrights' Workshop Fellow at The Lark (2019/2020), Pipeline Theatre Company PlayLab (2017 & 2018), LaGuardia Community College’s LGBTQ History Project Grant (2018), Queens Arts Council Grant (2015), Best New Work Motif Award (2014), and The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group (2009). Productions include: Man Boobs (Pride Films & Plays, 2011), Nico was a Fashion Model (Counter-Productions, 2013), Animals Commit Suicide (First Floor Theater, 2015), Locusts Have No King (INTAR, 2016), Bundle of Sticks (INTAR, 2020), and Alligator Mouth, Tadpole Ass (Theatre Rhinoceros, 2020), ¡OSO FABULOSO! & The Bear Backs (INTAR/McKittrick Hotel/Joe’s Pub, 2021), Bruise & Thorn (Pipeline Theatre Company 2022), and Ronald Reagan Murdered My Mentors (Fuse Theatre Ensemble, 2023). Other plays include: anOTHER (Distinguished New Work Award and Citizens Artists Award, The Kennedy Center, 2017), The Guilt Mongers or Los Traficantes De Culpa… (Winner - Nuestras Voces at Repertorio Español, 2017), Julio Ain’t Goin’ Down Like That (Commissioned by CUNY/NYC Council through the Office of Speaker Corey Johnson, and the Office of Daniel Dromm- District 25, 2019), Oh Deer! (INTAR Theatre Commission, 2020), Mind & Ass (New Dramatists Podcast Plays Commission, 2020), and Horny Orderly (New Dramatists Podcast Plays Commission, 2021). Other projects include: Co-producer and co-writer of the hit web series, Bulk-The Series (Vimeo, 2011 & 2013), and Book Writer for the rock musical, The Navigator, featuring music by Alynda Mariposa Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff, (Public Theater commission, 2023)