Julia is a theatre educator, director, actor, and arts administrator with a career spanning professional theatre, higher education, and youth arts engagement. She spent five seasons at the Tony Award–winning La Jolla Playhouse in artistic and administrative roles, most recently as Director of Education & Outreach, where she served as Executive Producer for the POP Tour productions Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space and Light Years Away. She led programs serving more than 30,000 students, teachers, and patrons, including JumpStart Theatre, Arts Academy, YP@LJP, and district-wide arts integration initiatives.
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This work informs her current role as Artistic Director of Aggregate Collective’s The Loop Festival, a multi-day event connecting playwrights from around the world with youth to develop new plays and musicals for young adult audiences.
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Julia has served as teaching artist with La Jolla Playhouse, Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), and iTheatrics, and was one of ten educators nationwide selected to develop the National Cornerstone Assessment for Theatre. She is a Teacher Leader in the Connected Arts Network, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, where she supports arts educators in aligning curriculum with the CASEL framework and implementing equity-centered teaching practices.
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She is a board member for the Oregon Thespians as the Director of Membership. She leads the Oregon Theatre Educators Association for the Oregon Thespians, a state chapter in the Educational Theatre Assocation.
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She has taught Acting and Musical Theatre at San Diego State University, UC Irvine, and the Elizabethan Drama Center in Taipei, Taiwan. Currently, she is Director of Theatre at Grants Pass High School and holds teaching credentials in Theatre and English. Her curriculum appears in EdTA’s Learning Center and Acting in Musical Theatre (3rd Edition), and she has served as an editor for Digital Theatre+. She also is on the adjunct faculty at Southern Oregon University teaching Theatre Methods, a course to prepare pre-service Theatre Teachers.
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An AEA actor and director, Julia has collaborated with artists including B.D. Wong and Wayne Barker (Mister Doctor), performed in La Jolla Playhouse’s Home of the Brave, and directed over 20 productions in educational and professional settings, including Cabaret at Coronado Playhouse, which raised over $5,000 for the Anti-Defamation League.
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Committed to equity and justice, Julia is an ally to Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and Indigenous communities and previously served as an Artistic Trustee at Diversionary Theatre. She believes in using theatre to challenge systems, expand empathy, and create meaningful change.
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