Julie is a Writer, Director and Actor currently living in Los Angeles, working primarily in Genre and Comedy to explore contemporary social and environmental issues. She grew up in Downtown New York City and Brooklyn, the dramatic, nature-loving kid of a lawyer and a journalist who taught her to be kind, to work with passion, love and laughter, to stay curious, and to see the dignity, humor, fear and beauty in others and the unknown.
Julie’s 2023 horror comedy short film about exploitative phone scams, SCAM, is currently in festivals, screening at the Oscar Qualifying 2023 RiverRun and LA SHORTS festivals, the Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, Cordillera, Fantaspoa, BIFAN, Wyoming, Nevada Women’s Film Festival (Award Best Short Fiction Film) and more. Her 2023 award winning dramatic short screenplay about gun violence and deescalation, BOTTLECAP (Cascadia Women’s International Film Festival Script Studio Workshop), is currently in production. The 2021 comedy short film CUPIDS, which she co-wrote with Director Zoey Martinson, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, aired on BET & CBS, and was nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award. Her 2019 feminist horror short film 3 DAYS screened in Fantastic Fest, Santa Fe, Annapolis, LA Shorts, Beeston and more, and since January 1, 2021 is available on ALTER. Her 86 MINUTE SINGLE TAKE dark breakup comedy indie feature film MOVED premiered at the 2014 Big Apple Film Festival and was distributed in 2015 by 1091 on Amazon. In 2020 she co-wrote Season Two of the comic mystery thriller narrative series SWIPE NIGHT for Tinder / 72 & Sunny.
Julie is a 2018 Warner Bros Discovery ONEFIFTY New Storytellers Initiative Alumni, where she developed her original episodic comedy series COOL NEW TOWN. Several of her original feature screenplays including EXCELLENT FANCY (2022 WScripted Cannes Screenplay List, Bowery Film Festival Best Screenplay Award), GHOSTIES (Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Screenplay Competition Top Three Finalist), RETREAT (FilmQuest Film Festival Screenplay Competition Finalist), HALLOWEEN PARADE, and COOL NEW TOWN have placed or won festivals and competitions, as have her original pilot screenplays SALVAGED (2022 Broad Humor Film Festival Audience Award Best Pilot), SECRETARY OF ARTS, THE SKID (2021 ScreenCraft Drama Finalist), PLAYERS, and more. Her humor writing has appeared in THE NEW YORKER SHOUTS & MURMURS, MCSWEENEYS and others. She earned her BA in Theater and English Literature from Vanderbilt University, her MFA in Acting from NYU, and was a longtime student and performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and Peoples Improv Theater.
As an actor, Julie appeared in theater, film and television, acting in New York, LA, Williamstown, Houston, London and more. TV appearances include I'm Dying Up Here, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Late Night With Seth Meyers, and The Colbert Report. Films include The Weekend, Maladies, The Last Day of August, True Story, Admazons and her own feature, Moved, which she wrote and directed, produced via Kickstarter, and which was distributed by The Orchard. Julie is a proud repeat Election Worker, and a longtime volunteer at organizations including Inner-City Arts, LA Food Bank, The 52nd Street Project, Opening Act and more. She loves art, horses, hiking and ghost stories.