Julie Kurtz

Since moving to Minneapolis last year, Julie has worked as a performer, director, and teacher in the Twin Cities. She began her midwest career (ironically) on the west coast with Jeune Lune (Susanna in Figaro) at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Further local credits include The Playwrights’ Center, Nautilus Music-Theater, Workhaus Collective, Red Eye, Strange Capers. She has Asst Directed with Ten Thousand Things and History Theatre. Julie worked extensively as actor, teacher and director in San Francisco. As a teacher Julie specializes in Interactive Theatre (based on the political theatre of Augusto Boal), currently teaching for Breaking Free, a St. Paul organization that serves women who’ve been victim to sexual exploitation (trafficking/prostitution). Administratively, Julie served as Development Associate for Theatre Bay Area. She is director/co-founder of Aldrich Arts Collaborative, an org that offers art classes and galleries (displaying the art of students & working artists).

The Playwrights Center
Theatr de la Jeune Lune
Ten Thousand Things Theater
Theatre in the Round
History Theatre
Zenon Dance School
Equity Membership Candidate
Red Eye Theater

Bay Area Critics Circle "Best Ensemble" for ANNA BELLA EEMA (Crowded Fire Theatre) and FIGARO (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Theatre de la Jeune Lune)

Lifeboats, work-in-progress, Workhaus Collective, Lear deBessonet

Gretchen/Faust, Gretchen (solo), Bedlam Theatre, Devised Work

Rough Cuts, Various Roles, Nautilus Music Theater, Ben Krywosz

Burial At Thebes, Antigone, Theatre in the Round, Rob Goudy

Forgetting, Blood, Workhaus Collective, Daniella Topol

Figaro, Susanna, Theatre de la Jeune Lune/Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Dominique Serrand

Sense of What Should Be (reading), Tessa, The Playwrights Center, Dominic Orlando

The Thugs, Daphne, Red Eye Theatre, Steve Busa

As You Like It, Oliver/Amiens, The Strange Capers, Randy Reyes

Safe House (reading), June, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Amy Mueller

Anna Bella Eema, Anna Bella Eema, Crowded Fire Theater Company, Rebecca Novick

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena/Hermia(u/s), San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Kenneth Kelleher

Comedy of Errors, Luciana/Abbess/Duke, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Rebecca Ennals

Gay Divorce (Ira Gershwin), Iris, 42nd Street Moon, Greg MacKellen

Seussical, Mayzie, Berkeley Playhouse, Kimberly Dooley

Radiostar (Radio Improv), Guest Artist, Cassandra’s Call Productions, David Austin-Groen

Cmplt Wks Wil Shkspr-Abrgd, Adam, Whitworth University, Colin Hesse

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Primary telephone: (415) 672-8218
Web site: JulieKurtz.com

American Conservatory Theatre, Summer Training Congress
Emphases in: Acting, Movement, Voice, Speech, Stage Combat, Clowning, Shakespeare, Alexander Technique.
B.A., Music (summa cum laude), Whitworth University: Spokane, WA.
Areas of Academic Emphasis: Music, Theatre, Religion
• Small group Leadership & Administration • Directing • Performance & Social Change
• Improvisation • Story Theatre • Acting

Acting: American Conservatory Theater S.T.C. (intensive diverse program), San Francisco, CA
● Brent St. Clair (Core ACT STC Faculty) ● Diana Trotter (Whitworth University)
● Roni Dengel (Berkeley Rep School of Theatre)
Vocal: Andrew Cooke ● Edie Delegans ● Marianne Weltman ● Darnelle Preston
On-Camera: Bobby Weinapple ● Daniel Gamburg
Voice/Speech: A.C.T. S.T.C. (Lisa Anne Porter) ● Marilyn Langbehn ● A.C.T. S.T.C. (Lynne Soffer)
Improvisation: A.C.T. S.T.C. (Barbara Scott)
Stage Combat: A.C.T. S.T.C. (Michael Storm)
Clowning: A.C.T. S.T.C. (Letitia Bartlett)
Dance: (approx. 15 yrs training) ● Ann Barrett(Jazz) ● Pak Narkornthap(Jazz, Ballet)
B.A., Music: Whitworth University, Spokane WA.

Direct audience-centered theatre. Remake the socioeconomic norms of theatre. Celebrate beauty. Die singing. Change public policy through the arts. Teach (and learn) the body as a creative instrument. Imitate Jesus and Jesus-like people. Host dinner parties. Oh...the five year plan?

65" tall
Plays ages:   Teen   20s   30s   40s   50s   60s   70s   80s  
Slender
Athletic build

Actor

Dancer

Musician

Singer

crazy invented accents
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) dialect training
Studies in French, German, Latin, and English diction
Can learn any accent quickly

Combat
Hand-to-Hand
Physical
Voice over
Mask
some gymnastics abilities
Rollerskating
multiple roles
Character Voice
Trampoline
Modern Dance
Ballet
Swing Dance
Jazz Dance
Ballroom & Latin Dance
IPA Proficient
Tumbling
Shakespearean Text Analysis and Training
Improv
Theatre in the Round
Most sports
Ice Skating
horseback riding
Working with Children
period style and classics

Kazoo
Guitar Acoustic
tambourine
Ukulele
Whistling
Basic Piano

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