about
Julianne Estur (she/her) is a Filipino-American writer of speculative fiction based in Los Angeles, California with a B.A. in English from UCLA. She has a love for the esoteric and the macabre. Some writers she owes her life to are Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Ann Radcliffe, and Sarah Ruhl. Professional wrestling, fairy tales, doomed romances, and ghost stories are the phantoms that currently haunt her psyche.
You can find more of her plays on New Play Exchange. Contact her at julianneallyssa@gmail.com.
selected short fiction & poetry
"What Comes After..." | Yuzu Press | 2022
“Crave” | Westwind Journal of the Arts | 2023
“The Graveyard Shift” | Haunted Words Press | 2024
“The Hard Sell” | OFIC Magazine | 2024
"yours, truly" | Haunted Words Press | 2025
selected plays
Good Tidings | Los Angeles Theatre Initiative | 2025 | Edinburgh Fringe 2025
A commune of modern-day Spiritualists hold a seance to summon their recently deceased and saint-like teen girl medium in order to determine her successor.
Lover Girls | Untitled Theatre Company | 2024
In the far future, a late-night talk show hosts a special episode to show off one of the current president's best projects: Rehabilitation centers for women deemed deviant.