Julia Brownell's play Smart Cookie won the 2008 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award and received its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Smart Cookie was workshopped/read by the Minneapolis Playwrights Center and The Public Theater. Her short play Good Girl was produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in January, 2009, was a Heideman Award finalist, and was published in The Best Short Plays of 2009 by Smith & Kraus. Julia is a writer for the HBO comedy Hung and her screenplay F*ing Engaged was optioned by Film Nation.