bio
Judy has thought of herself as a writer ever since she won $5 in a newspaper contest “My Favorite Christmas” when she was in fifth grade…which was also the same time she became a ventriloquist and started performing with her dummy at local parties and events.
Judy wrote for the school newspaper in junior high and stopped playing the clarinet in her senior year of high school in order to write for her high school paper. She still has her clarinet.
While in college, Judy sold her first article to Seventeen magazine—an article extolling the virtues of being a ventriloquist. After her sophomore year, she landed an internship at a publishing house in San Francisco, and after her junior year landed an internship at a magazine in New York (through ASME). Upon graduation, she moved to New York landed a job as an editor at Seventeen magazine.
She enrolled in The Academy of Dramatic Arts and simultaneously began writing for education publishing companies. Her musical revue EAT THE CLOCK ran seven months Off Off Broadway. She continued to write articles and short stories for magazines. She became the Artistic Director of The North End Children's Theatre and wrote and directed many plays for kids of all ages. Her plays for adults have been produced around the country. She was also a contributing editor for YM magazine.
She continued writing musicals with her husband (Grammy-nominated pianist Duane Hulbert) as well as writing classical music pieces with narration. For four years, they produced a weekly YouTube channel LEARN & LOVE MUSIC. She's had ten books published for children, including a biography of Harriet Tubman.
In 2021, the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation published her Middle Grade historical novel THE WIND WILL NOT STOP which deals with the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma in 1885. It's available on Amazon.