Meet Julie!
No matter what happens in this wacky world we live in, I lead with empathy, honesty, kindness, good humor, and work ethic that, when I’m lucky (and have had my iced coffee) flows loving into my acting and writing. You want to do Shakespeare? I’m in. You want to do some contemporary realism? I’m already there. Musical theater? I’ll go get my book. You want to do a surrealist production of Go Dog Go…Well, I’ll give it a shot. I’m open to try almost anything at least once.
I made my onstage debut like many young Jewish kids—in my temple’s Purim Shpiel. Acting in school productions, theater camp, and community theater would create canon events for much of my childhood. But coming of age in New York’s Hudson Valley, I once saw acting professionally as an unattainable childhood dream—then I got to Hofstra University, saw students studying acting from a distance, ached inside, and knew I had to come back home to theater.
I was an active member in my drama department: I was featured in two musical revues, wrote a children’s show called Sparky’s Glasses, was a dramaturg for Noel Coward’s Private Lives and Jean Racine’s Phaedra, built in the scene shop, was the Public Relations chair for student-run Spectrum Players, wrote lots of plays (my short play, New Harvest, was selected for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 Community Bake-Off). I wrote my first full length play, Fishtank, and directed a staged reading of it, also with Spectrum Players. All of this and more earned me a spot in Alpha Psi Omega, a National Drama Honors Fraternity, as Sister Eliza Bent. I finished my college career by writing and starring in my second full length play, Sweet Little Girl, directed by Gavin Peterson, under the guidance of playwright Erik Brogger and professor Chris Dippel: this was a senior thesis project which earned me high honors. I graduated magna cum laude from Hofstra with a BA in Drama (Performance) and English (Creative Writing & Literature) in May 2021.
Meanwhile, during my senior year at Hofstra, I resolved to find an acting program that suited me. My URTA search (and Chris’ glowing recommendation) landed me in Atlantic Acting School; and just like that, 2.5 years passed. There, I studied the use of Practical Aesthetics in contemporary, poetic and classical texts. I also took classes in Voice for the Actor, Speech, Suzuki/Viewpoints, film/TV acting, and much more. At Atlantic, I’ve worked on a plethora of roles, such as Stella in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, a deep character study of the actress Marilyn Monroe, Sonya in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Paula in Fornes’ Fefu & Her Friends, The Countess of Roussillon in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Johnny in Megan Meinero’s We Are Wombats, and Caroline in Lauren Gunderson’s I and You. This past summer, I made my off-off-Broadway debut at La Mama Experimental Theater Club as Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (directed by Orson Cox and Nina Samaan). For my official final semester production at Atlantic, I played #00 in Sarah Delappe’s The Wolves, (directed by Seonjae Kim). Later that semester, I returned to Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2 as Loretta, Saint Matthew, and Saint Thomas in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (directed by Duran Arturo Lucio); this was the inaugural production of Penultima Theatre Company, to which I also work on the marketing team.
Aside from theater, I love dogs, iced coffee, journaling, doodling, poetry, exercising, indie music, and spending time with my loved ones. I’ve also had type one diabetes for over twenty years, and particularly interested in disability advocacy in my writing. I’m an Aries sun, Scorpio moon, and Cancer rising. And so my story continues! I’m thrilled to meet you, and hopefully work together.
