Julie Becker is a New York-based theatre artist interested in the body as a site of transformation. Her work is often physically dynamic, dreamlike, and centered on questions of revealing the unconscious, masks (both figurative and literal), and liberation.

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Her practice draws on physical theatre, ensemble training, butoh, clown, primal movement, dance, martial arts, and traditional singing. Working in multiple genres and roles, she performs, directs, writes, and teaches. She has primarily trained with artists influenced by Polish laboratory theatre, including Rena Mirecka, The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Pere Sais, Teatr Zar, Teatr Piesn Kozla, and Double Edge Theatre. She holds an MA in Ensemble Theatre from Rose Bruford College in conjunction with Teatr Piesn Kozla.

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She began her performance life in Boston, performing in and directing many small theatre, butoh, cabaret, and devised ensemble productions.

In New York, she has appeared in Misconceptions by Stephen Wangh (An Acrobat of the Heart, The Laramie Project) and Inconceivable with Blessed Unrest, and has presented her solo piece, the anti-comedy, clown/butoh hybrid Untitled Clown at the 2023 Coney Island Ritual Cabaret, The Otherside of Comedy, and The Idiot's Hour.

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Internationally, Julie has performed with First Body in Self-Portrait at the 2025 Teatro nel Bicchiere festival in Tuscany, and in The Site in Medellín, Colombia in January 2026. In 2015, she performed in Studying Hamlet at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, directed by Grzegorz Bral of Teatr Piesn Kozla.

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She is a member of the NYC Seed Group, a group founded in collaboration with Mario Biagini and the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards that explores work with traditional songs. She is a founding member of RE^ATHETA, an international group engaged in lifelong learning through embodied, collaborative practice.

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Julie is currently deepening her international collaborations with First Body, training in Voice Movement Therapy, and producing her sci-fi audio drama Sporadic Phantoms.