For three decades, native New Yorker June Guralnick has created dramas melding fact with fiction and portraying individuals caught - sometimes comically, sometimes tragically - in the intersection of politics and personal dreams. Her works have been performed at venues including the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement Theatre (N.Y.), Spirit Square (N.C.), Equity Library Theatre (N.Y.), Popular Theatre (Cal.), Burning Coal Theatre (N.C.), Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (N.C.), AS220 (R.I.), North Carolina Museum of Art – and beamed to the Space Station! Awards  include the Silver Medal-Pinter Drama Review Prize, North Carolina Arts Council Literature Fellowship, North Carolina Arts Council Interdisciplinary Grant, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre New Plays winner, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Writing Fellows, Hambidge Center for the Arts Writer-in-Residence, Writer-in-Residence at Wildacres Retreat Center, Artist-in-Residence at Rensing Center, United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County Regional Artist Grant, Piedmont Regional Artist Grant, University of the South Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar, and in 2019, Second Place winner for the national Judith Royer Award in Playwriting Excellence, and Runner-Up for VCCA’s Tyrone Guthrie Writer’s Residency (Ireland). June’s educational background includes a B.A. in Theatre and Political Science from S.U.N.Y- Buffalo and a graduate degree in Theatre from City College of New York. June has held faculty positions at institutions including St. John’s University (N.Y.), North Carolina State University, St. Andrews Presbyterian College (N.C.) and Guilford Technical Community College (N.C.). Past leadership positions include National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Administration Fellows, Executive Director of Theatre Association of Pennsylvania, North Carolina Arts Council Theatre Arts Director, Artistic Director of the Women’s Ensemble Theatre (N.Y.), and City of Raleigh Arts Commission Executive Director. June is a proud member of Dramatists' Guild of America, the Playwrights’ Center, North Carolina Writers Network, and International Centre for Women Playwrights. June currently works with The Joel Fund, leading writing classes for veterans; additionally, she serves as Vice President for the North Carolina Writers’ Conference as well as Program Coordinator for the Sally Buckner Emerging Writers’ Fellowship.