Julie Hébert

Julie Hébert is an award-winning writer/director/producer of television, film and theater. Of Cajun descent, she grew up on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Hébert has written and directed such hit shows as American Crime (2015), Boss (2011), The West Wing (1999), ER (1994), among other shows. She wrote the screenplays for Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001), starring Angela Bassett, and Female Perversions (1996), starring Tilda Swinton, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Her work for film has been praised as "intriguingly complex" (Variety) and "pulsing with veracity" (LA Times), with "a raw power that is impossible to dismiss" (Roger Ebert). She has won accolades for her television work, including a George Foster Peabody Award, a Prism Award, an Environmental Media Award, as well as being nominated for the Emmy and WGA awards. Hébert started her creative life as a theater director in San Francisco and was fortunate to work extensively with Sam Shepard. She met