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Julie Hébert is an American writer and director who works in theater, film, and television. She is known for her work on popular TV shows like ER, Numb3rs, and The Man In The High Castle.

Biography

Early Life and Theater Work

Julie Hébert grew up in a small town along the coast of Louisiana. Many of her early plays were inspired by this area. After finishing college, she moved to San Francisco.

She started her career by directing and writing plays for various theater companies. These included the Magic Theater and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Soon, her work was shown at national theater companies across the United States. Julie Hébert's plays have won two PEN Awards for Drama, which are important awards for writers. Her play Tree opened in San Francisco Playhouse in 2015.

Moving into Film and Television

Julie Hébert also worked on films. She helped adapt a novel called Female Perversions into a screenplay. This screenplay was then made into a film in 1996.

In 2001, Julie Hébert started working in television. She trained with a well-known producer named John Wells. Her first TV writing job was for the show Third Watch. She wrote two episodes for the second season. One of these episodes, "Know Thyself," won a special award called a Prism Award.

Later that year, she began directing TV episodes. She co-directed a special episode about 9/11 for Third Watch with John Wells. They won a George Foster Peabody Award for this episode. In 2002, she directed her first episode on her own. She continued to write and direct several more episodes for Third Watch. During this time, she also adapted one of her plays, Ruby's Bucket of Blood, into a TV film for Showtime.

Working on Popular TV Shows

In 2002, Julie Hébert joined the team of ER, another popular show produced by John Wells. She worked as a co-producer for the ninth season. She also wrote and directed episodes for ER during its ninth, tenth, and eleventh seasons.

In 2004, she started directing episodes for The West Wing, which was also a John Wells production. She directed two episodes for the fifth season and one for the sixth season.

From 2005 to 2009, Julie Hébert was a writer and producer for the show Numb3rs. She wrote several episodes for the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons. She also directed some episodes for the show, including "Nine Wives" and "Power." She was promoted to co-executive producer during her time on Numb3rs.

Recent Television Work

In 2010, Julie Hébert worked on other TV series. She wrote two episodes for the CBS show Blue Bloods. She also directed an episode of The Good Wife.

In 2011, she became a co-executive producer for Rizzoli & Isles and wrote an episode. Her next project was the series Boss, where she was also a co-executive producer and wrote two episodes.

In 2013 and 2014, Julie Hébert directed three episodes of the show Nashville. She also worked on the ABC series American Crime as a co-executive producer, writer, and director.

More recently, she has served as a co-executive producer for the fourth season of the Amazon series The Man In The High Castle.