Julie Taiwo Quarles

Julie Taiwo Quarles is a Los Angeles-based playwright, English professor, and identical twin with roots in central California and Nigeria. With storytelling inspired by areas of focus in her research and teaching, she sees her dramatist and instructor identities as complementary. Her most recent playwriting looks at Africa in conversation with the West through the albinism experience and cultural ownership, her research explores August Wilson’s colorblind casting and representational authenticity arguments in relation to contemporary Black performance, and her instruction includes English composition and language-learning, American pop culture, and creative writing. She teaches at Pepperdine University, and resides in LA with her husband and two sons.