Julia Devine

Julia Devine is an experimental theatre director, creative cultural organizer, and interdisciplinary arts practitioner with over 20 years of experience as a performer, director, teacher, musician, and nonprofit manager. She creates new theatre work at the intersection of science and technology which explores communal silence, human connection, and care for our earthly home. Recent creative projects have journeyed to the moon, and have mapped climate disaster and human migration. Her original adaptation of The Water Station by Ōta Shōgo received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Co-founder of the avant-pop music/film collective Famous Letter Writer, Julia creates original music and video art–featured in many venues, including NPR Music, Talkhouse, American Songwriter, and screened in international film festivals. DADAMAMA, her latest project, received a New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Interdisciplinary grant.

Active in creative community development, Julia co-founded Outside Art, a public art production group in northern NY, where she has produced over 20 murals and arts events. Her work in cultural development earned her a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship in association with the Kresge Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania's School of Public Policy and Practice.

Julia is an AFC®certified financial coach for artists with Minerva Financial Arts; she works with organizations such as Sundance, YoungArts, Greater Columbus Arts Council, and American Craft Council.

She previously taught acting and directing at the State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh, where she earned the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and directed the Center for Community Engagement. Her teaching emphasizes creative range and professional development.

Julia received her MFA in Acting from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University in association with the American Repertory Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre School. She has also served professional apprenticeships with the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia and Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and has worked professionally as an actress (film, stage, and commercials) in Washington, DC, Toronto, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Moscow, and Los Angeles.

Julia empowers students to transcend disciplinary boundaries and expectations and become creators, citizens, and changemakers.