Judy Carlson Hulbert: I have been a magazine editor, an educational writer, and a PTA vice-president. For years I was the Artistic Director of The North End Children’s Theatre in Tacoma, Washington.
I’ve been an editor at Seventeen magazine and a columnist at YM magazine. My short stories and articles have appeared in both of those publications. My articles have also appeared in womenSports magazine, Weight Watchers magazine, and Reader’s Digest’s Reading Skill Builders. For over ten years I was an editor and writer at Curriculum Concepts, an educational publishing company in NY.
I’ve taught theater classes and directed plays in the Tacoma school system (from Kindergarten through 8th grade). I’ve directed plays at various elementary schools and middle schools in the area.
My husband, Grammy-nominated pianist Duane Hulbert and I have written many musicals and music pieces. In 2012 we were selected as Artist Residents at Brush Creek Artist Residency Program.
Books:
Here Comes Kate; The Bedtime Beast; Pete Pig Cleans Up; Life With Max; “Nothing Is Impossible!” Said Nelly Bly, Armando Asked, “Why?” (all published in the RealReaders series by Heinemann Library. 1989 & 1990);
Harriet Tubman, Call to Freedom (published by Ballantine Books, 1989);
Something to Munch (published by Modern Curriculum Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, 1996);
First Day, (a Spotlight Book, published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1997).
The Wind Will Not Stop (The Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation Publishing Division, 2021)
Plays:
(for elementary school classes:)
Twisted Fairy Tales, The Quest for the Magical Cup, The Sheriff’s New Clothes, The Very Silly Circus, The Pied Piper of Tacoma, Snow White Goes Hollywood, Field Trip to Outer Space, The Alphabet Family Singers, Queen Midas and the Chocolate Touch, and The Last of the Really Great Bully Busters (an anti-bullying play). I’ve also adapted Three by O. Henry, Junior Follies, Stone Soup, The Reluctant Dragon, Tom Sawyer, The Musicians of Bremen, Peter Pan, and The Tempest.
For adults:
Eat the Clock, a musical revue which ran for seven months off off Broadway.
Driving Daughter, a one-act play that was produced in New York by WomanSeeking…Theatre Co in 2004 and also was a winner of the 2004 South Sound Playwriting Festival in Washington.
The Garage Sale, a semi-finalist in the 2005 Eileen Heckert Playwriting Competition and winner of 6Women Playwrights Festival in Colorado Springs in 2007.
Probably Nothing, a full-length play about a woman’s struggle with breast cancer, which was produced at The 78th St. Theatre Lab in NY, Sept. 2005.
One More Knot , performed Jan. 2006 by Woman Seeking Theatre Co in NYC.
Musicals:
The Last of the Dragons, a musical for families, performed in workshop at libraries and The Blue Mouse Theater in Tacoma, Aug.
Bertram the Shakespearean Bat (an hour-long musical for kids) performed August 2006 at The Blue Mouse Theater, Wheelock Library and Moore Library, Tacoma, WA.
Go Cindy Go! (a full-length musical set in 1967, for high schools) workshopped at The Blue Mouse Theater, August
Noah’s Wild Ark Adventure (a 30-minute musical for Vacation Bible School), commissioned by First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, WA, August
The Case of the Pied Piper (an hour-long musical for 61 kids), Lowell Elementary School, June
Pecos Bill (a short musical using new lyrics to old folk tunes)
Music for Children:
With my husband Duane Hulbert, I have written an original CD for children, introducing children to instruments of the orchestra, “The Orchestra’s Party.”
I also wrote original stories to serve as narration for Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid and Robert Schumann’s Scenes From Childhood.
Pecos Bill (a 20-minute classical musical piece for children),
The Pirate Musician (double bass and narration)
The Jazzy Pied Piper (story with improvised trumpet)
The Journey of Harriet Tubman (clarinet, piano, cello with narration)
Four Sunsets in a Day: John Glenn's 1962 Orbit of the Earth
I also wrote and co-produced thirteen children’s concerts at the University of Puget Sound.