Julie has worked professionally as a voice and accent coach in theater and other media since 2008. She joined the David Geffen School of Drama faculty in 2022. Recent coaching credits include Wolverine: The Lost Trail for Marvel; Othello, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure,Henry V, Twelfth Night, and Coriolanus for Next Chapter Podcasts/Play On; And a Nightingale Sang, The Caretaker, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; The Winter’s Tale at Hartford Stage; the ripple, the wave that carried me home at Yale Repertory Theatre; Kinky Boots at Bucks County Playhouse; Bodies They Ritual at Clubbed Thumb in NYC; Belfast Girls at Irish Repertory Theatre; and Ride the Cyclone: The Musical at McCarter Theatre Center in NJ. Additionally, she has coached projects for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, BEDLAM, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, Tectonic Theater Project, Westport Country Playhouse, American Players Theatre, Second Stage (NYC), and others.
She has taught at the University of Connecticut, Penn State, Rutgers, A.R.T., Harvard University, the Moscow Art Theatre School, Webster University, the National Theater Institute, the Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Terry Knickerbocker Studio, the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, and University of the Arts Helsinki. She is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and a Master Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. She is co-author of the textbook Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training. MFA, ART Institute at Harvard University. BA, Theater Studies at Duke University.