White Money
Salt Lake Acting Company, UT
White
Money is a comedy in six parts about sex, television, and the American Way.
An adventure through contemporary culture, the play follows one woman, Ella,
on a corrupt, epic journey in the Western United States, a journey that transforms
her from Wendover sunbather to Las Vegas waitress to Oklahoma truck driver.
Julie
Jensen was reared in Beaver, Utah, attended the College of Southern Utah, and
graduated from Utah State University. Her early one-acts were premiered in New
York City and have since had numerous productions throughout the country. Her
full-length play Stray Dogs won the FDG/CBS Award in 1986, and was premiered
at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., where it was nominated for a Helen Hayes
Award. It was a finalist for the National Play Award and has been published
by Dramatists Play Service. Thursday's Child was premiered in 1988 at
Capital Rep in Albany and received a professional staged reading at Playwrights
Horizons in New York City, with Kathy Bates in the leading role. White Money
was commissioned by Philadelphia Theatre Company and received a grant from the
Kentucky Foundation for Women. White Money received professional staged
readings at Milwaukee Rep and the Audrey Skirball-Kent Theatre in Los Angeles.
Jensen has written for a Norman Lear pilot, worked in comedy development for
Columbia Pictures, and co-wrote a film for the American Film Institute. She
teaches at the University of Las Vegas.
Director: Robert
Graham Small
Set Designer: Cory Dangerfield
Lighting Designer: Megan McCormick
Costume Designer: Christine Murdoch Becz
Sound Designer: Bob Cox
Leading Performers: Garrison Burrell, Jayne Luke, Russ McGinn, Jean Roberts
Running Dates: March 15-April 14, 1991
