Jude Narita is best known for her award-winning one-woman play, COMING INTO PASSION/SONG FOR A SANSEI, of which she was actor, writer and producer. PASSION ran for 24 months in Los Angeles, and Narita won: the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award; a Drama-Logue Award for Creation and Performance; a James Wong Howe "JIMMIE" from the Association of Asian Pacific American Artists (AAPAA); and a VESTA Award from the Woman's Building of Los Angeles.

Narita and PASSION were also featured on the PBS Smithsonian episode Gender, which presented the work of five U.S. artists; and was also chosen to represent American theater in the Mark Taper/ USIA tour of Poland.

Narita's other one-woman plays are: Walk The Mountain; Celebrate Me Home; Stories Waiting to be Told; and The Wilderness Within (Stories Waiting to be Told and The Wilderness Within later combined).

Narita also has as a new play With Darkness Behind Us, Daylight Has Come about the effects of the Japanese American internment on three generations of women. Daylight, a multi-media play which includes a video of the Heart Mountain, Wyoming internment camp will premiere in Santa Monica, California in April 2001.

Narita has also been awarded: two California Civil Liberties Public Education Grants; a National Civil Liberties Public Education Grant; a Raznick Fellowship from the College of Letters & Science at UCSB; a Recognition Award from University of Santa Barbara; eight grants from the Cultural Affairs Department of Los Angeles; two more Drama-Logue Awards for Acting and Producing The Tiger on the Right/The Dragon on the Left; a Brody Foundation grant; a Rockefeller from UCLA Asian American Studies; and has been a California Arts Council Touring Artist since 1992.

All of Narita's plays create honest portrayals of Asian and Asian American characters which reflect different heritage and culture; and if accents are used, they are as distinctly different as in real life.

Walk the Mountain was the creative result of Narita's trip to Viet Nam with a Women's Delegation sponsored by the Women's Union of Viet Nam and the Asia Resource Center of the United States. Narita also went to Cambodia, and both there and in Viet Nam, she interviewed women.

Narita was the first international artist to perform for the Inaugural season of the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT). PASSION played to sold-out audiences in Singapore. Narita returned to SRT to teach a women's writing/acting workshop, culminating in The Tiger on the Right/The Dragon on the Left - II, the Singaporean women's ensemble production of original material.

Narita taught an acting/writing workshop in Los Angeles to encourage other Asian American actresses to write and perform their own original material. From this workshop Narita produced the women's ensemble performance of original material, The Tiger on the Right/The Dragon on the Left. The other actresses and Narita won Drama-Logue Awards for Performance, and Narita also won a Drama-Logue Award as Producer.

She was named one of the "50 Asian Americans Who'll Be Making a Difference" by Asian Week, The Voice of Asian America, and one of the "Top 100 Asian Americans in the Nation" by Trans-Pacific Magazine.

Narita was Executive Producer on the independent film BANG, which was on many Top 10 Films of 1997 lists, including The Los Angeles Times. Darling Narita (Judes's daughter) starred in and received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for BANG.

Narita has served as President, and is currently on the board of PAAWWW (Pacific Asian American Women Writers West), an organization that encourages other Asian American women writers. She is also a member of Filmmaker's Alliance, a collective of independent filmmakers.