Julie is a Theatre Director
and Producer, with a background in performance.
She was Artistic Director/CEO at Mermaid Arts Centre from 2020 – 2024 and Artistic Director of The Everyman, Cork from 2014 to 2020. She is currently chair of the board at Graffiti Theatre Company and sits on the Irish Playography Panel at Irish Theatre Institute.
She holds a BA and an MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from UCC and was the 2022/23 Jerome Hynes Clore Leadership Fellow.
Directing credits include: Found by Aideen Wylde (2023, BrokenCrow), and The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh (2018), Bluetooth by Rachel Thornton (2018), Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry (2018 remount, associate director), Dancing At Lughnasa by Brian Friel (2017), The Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness (2016), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig (2015), Lovers by Brian Friel (2015), all for The Everyman.
She has worked as an actor, director & producer with numerous Irish arts organisations and companies, including Painted Bird, Conflicted, BrokenCrow, Cork Midsummer Festival, Hammergrin, Corcadorca, Meridian, Dublin Theatre Festival, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, The Performance Corporation, Gare St. Lazare, Once Off Productions, Landmark Productions, and Siren Productions.
Producing credits include the world premiere of Mick Flannery’s Evening Train musical (2019), the Landmark/Everyman co-produced world premiere of Asking for It by Louise O’Neill (2018), the world premiere of Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry (2017) and the Irish premiere of Futureproof by Lynda Radley (2017), all for The Everyman.