JOLIE LONDON-GLICKMAN
playwright / educator / organizer
Jolie London-Glickman is an actress-turned-playwright originally from New York. A graduate of Temple University with an MFA in Playwriting and NYU/Tisch with a BFA in Acting, Jolie writes what she knows, or what she's still trying to understand: about womanhood and queerness, Jews in diaspora and whiteness, objectification and intimacy, and illness and addiction. Marked by aggressively lived-in dialogue (and yes, often in a living room), her work explores the possibilities of individual choice as dictated by our current conditions, and seeks to expose the invisible ideology of “common sense.” Her debut play, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS, premiered at The New York International Fringe Festival to sold-out audiences and earned the FringeFave award.
Jolie has taught several undergraduate courses in Temple University's Theater Department, including Playwriting, Queer Theatre, The Art of Acting, and a course in personal statement writing. Her classes regularly incorporate rhetorical grammar instruction to support students in writing with intention and purpose. Rather than treating grammar as a set of restrictions, she presents it as a flexible, creative tool, empowering students with full access to the expressive power of language. She implements a structured, collaborative workshop model to support peer feedback and revision, as well as the original “Adaptumentary” project, through which student ensembles devise original work grounded in historical research.
She currently serves as Staff Membership Organizer with AFT Local 6290, after previously holding an elected position on the union’s executive board. Her organizing emphasizes the inherent and essential role of workers in the union, and the empowerment that comes with active membership. She has spoken on strategy panels hosted by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and regularly leads trainings for emerging organizers. Her approach to building shared responsibility is grounded in the practical work of showing up, fostering trust, and a commitment to making people feel seen, valued, and capable.
In a past life, PAPER Magazine named her one of the “Amazing Women to Follow on the Internet,” and Mashable featured her in “40 Times Ladies Ruled the World.” People Magazine, The Today Show, MTV, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, Women’s Health, and the BBC, among others, have also covered Jolie's social impact.
Oh, and she was the voice of the pretzel Goldfish.
