Playwright, Fingersmith

Other plays and musicals: Produced at Goodspeed Opera House, Studio Arena Theater, Playwrights Horizons’ Lab, The Depot Theater, among others. 

New work developed at: Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, The Public Theater Lab/Ars Nova, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program. 

Other credits: Writer/Co-Executive Producer: Grace and Frankie (currently). Showrunner: Best Friends Forever, The United States of Tara. Writer/Producer: Big Love, The West Wing, Sex and the City and Friends (five years) and more. Screenwriter/Lyricist: Lilo & Stitch 2; Lyricist, Mulan II. Writer/Contributor to NPR’s This American Life and live performer for TAL’s “What I Learned from Television” tour. 

Awards and honors: Emmy and Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Friends: (Best Comedy Series [twice] and Best Writing for a Comedy Series); Emmy nomination for The West Wing (Best Drama Series) and WGA nomination for Best Writing for a Drama. Junge’s episode of Friends’ “The One Where Everyone Finds Out” was used in a scientific study and cited in Atlantic magazine as a proven “mood booster.” 

Education: MFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program; BA, Barnard College.