College Courses

• Acting I (for majors and nonmajors)

• Acting IV Masked Characterization

• Introduction to Directing

• Introduction to Playwriting

• Prison-Based Theatre (special topics course)

• Staging Cultures (post-colonial global theatre)

• Script Analysis

• Introduction to Theatre

• Theatre Appreciation

• Theatre and Theory

• Diversity Seminar

• Community-Based Learning and Action

• Stage Movement (as teaching assistant)

• Introduction to Storytelling (as teaching assistant)

Workshops & Classes

Julie is an accomplished and flexible educator and teaching artist. Workshops available:

Something Out of Nothing: Devised Theatre & Collaborative Performance Making

For individual artists, ensembles, and theatre makers curious about creating new works of theatre.

Improvisation & Team Building

For corporate groups, academic faculty, and nonprofit staff. Loosen up, follow your impulses, have fun, practice poise under pressure, and learn about one another through games, exercises, and improvisation.

Improvisation & Acting for Young People

Improvisation and acting games and training for young people, elementary, middle, and high school ages.

Auditions & Monologues

Choosing strong audition material and doing your best work at auditions and callbacks for early career actors and theatre makers. Private coaching available.

Julie has given talks and facilitated a number of workshops/master classes on a variety of topics including:

• leadership and the arts

• diversity, equity, oppression & privilege (experiential)

• devised theatre & collaborative performance making

• prison-based theatre

• audition techniques

• Viewpoints & composition

• aesthetics & semiotics in performance making

• critical media studies

• building a portfolio

• transgender & women's issues in prisons

• engaged dramaturgy

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“Your workshop was a great example and I really felt like I could go forth and create my own thing. So thank you for a well thought-out workshop!” - KCACTF participant

Public Speaking

Julie is a member of the Colorado Center for the Book (CCftB) Speakers Bureau. Please visit the Colorado Humanities website for booking.

Julie has been invited to present in a variety of contexts including academic & industry conferences, university events, and art museums. She has participated in the comedic "Great Debate" at Buntport Theater and has officiated weddings. She is a member of Toastmasters International.