Jules Corriere

Jules Corriere lives in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee with her beloved composer Brett McCluskey and their 2 cats, Peekaboo and Nike. She wrote and directed the monthly, one-hour radio show and podcast, “StoryTown” from 2011-2023. The show is based on oral stories from the Southern Appalachian region and broadcast on local NPR station 89.5 FM and on the StoryTown podcast. In addition to her radio work, Corriere has been a playwright and theater director with Community Performance, International and Story Bridge for over twenty years. This theatrical work is steeped in local culture, and developed with local oral stories and performed by 40-100 community members of all ages and backgrounds as a way to bring people together across barriers of age, culture, religion, gender identities, and other obstacles that keep communities from being strong neighbors. She earned her MA in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard, where she also served as a Global Ambassador. Currently, Jules has been writing screenplays, which have won the Paris Art and Movie Awards Summer Session in 2022, as well as over a dozen other International Film Festivals.