JULIE BECKER
JULIE BECKER
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Performance
Role
Ensemble
Judith Sears, Ensemble
Sprankles
Robin/Director/Writer
Joolie Bagoolie
Clown
Performer
Director/performer
Bird/Ensemble (butoh)
Ensemble
Lady of the House
Protagonist
Ghost Walker (butoh)
Cat
Bird Woman/The Man
Ensemble (butoh)
Ensemble (butoh)
Martius, Publius, Goth
Audrey
Agnes
Phooka
Grandmother Iguana
Phooka
Emily Dickinson
Claire
Park Ranger
Puck
Ensemble
Production
Inconceivable
Misconceptions (world premiere)
Untitled Clown (Redux)
Sporadic Phantoms
Interactive Adventure Show
Untitled Clown
Singing Bones: Thig Am Bata
Singing Bones
TREE
Studying Hamlet
Thresholds
Tales of the Unnameable
Lunar Labyrinth
Grandma's House
Crime Passionel
10 Days That Shook The World
UnAccountable Fog Operants
Titus Andronicus
As You Like It
Bug
La Folie Noire
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun
Bent Wit Cabaret: OBSESSION
Alice In Bed
The Long Christmas Ride Home
Chilling Tales
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Molassacre!
Company
Blessed Unrest, NYC (Int'l Human Rights Arts Festival)
Blessed Unrest, NYC (dir. Jessica Burr, by Stephen Wangh)
Coney Island Ritual Cabaret, The Otherside of Comedy (solo)
Sporadic Phantoms (audio drama)
Joolie Bagoolie, New York (ongoing show)
PAM Residencies, Los Angeles (solo piece)
Distillery Gallery/Mobius, Boston (solo piece)
Fool's Journey, Boston
Lord and June/Mobius, Boston
Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, Poland (Dir. Grzegorz Bral)
The Nightjarmen, Boston FIGMENT Festival
Flat Earth Theatre Company, Boston
Liars and Believers/CHIMERAlab, Boston
Wax Wings Productions, Boston
Puppet Showplace Theatre, Boston (solo piece)
CHIMERAlab, Provincetown MA
CHIMERAlab, Boston
Full Contact Theatre Company, Boston
Theatre@First, Somerville MA
Flat Earth Theatre Company, Boston
Behind the Mask Studios, Somerville MA
Behind the Mask Studios, touring
Axe to Ice Productions, Boston
Do It Live! Productions, Boston
Salem Theatre Company, Salem MA
Salem Theatre Company, Salem MA
Contemporary Theatre of Boston
The Molasses Lasses, Boston
Film
Production
Shinrin-yoku
The Creed
Role
Vocalizations
Linda (lead)
Company/Director
Tom Weksler
Fool's Errand Productions
Training
B.A. in Theatre, concentration in Performance, Northeastern University (Boston)
M.A. in Ensemble Theatre, University of Manchester (Rose Bruford College) in conjunction with Teatr Piesn Kozla (London)
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First Body, Diego Borges, (New York and Brasilia)
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The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards: Thomas Richards, Cecile Richards, Mario Biagini, Focused Research Team and Open Program; Winter Intensive (Pontedera, Italy), Song, Intentional Action, Physical Training (New York), At the Core of Creativity (New York)
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Pere Sais: work with songs and physical training (London and Barcelona)
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Bral School of Acting in conjunction with Rose Bruford College course (London)
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Rena Mirecka: Karawana Sun (Ashfield, MA), Individual work sessions (Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw)
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Teatr Piesn Kozla Workshop Village: Vocal Techniques, Anna Zubrzycki; Physical Acting, Grzegorz Bral (Wroclaw)
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Teatr Zar Training Sessions: Physical acting, song and voice, Jaroslaw Fret, Matej Matejka, and Ditte Berkeley (Ashfield, MA)
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Double Edge Theatre: Internship, Winter Intensive, Summer Intensives (Ashfield, MA)
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Improv Comedy: Chet Harding and Alison Royer (Improv Asylum, Boston)
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Butoh: Sara June, Jennifer Hicks, Su-En, Yukio Suzuki
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Natural Movement: Aaron Cantor, Rafe Kelley, Tom Weksler
Additional Relevant Experience
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Member of RE^ATHETA
International group focused on lifelong learning and creation through theatre, somatic, and movement
practices, hosting symposiums, workshops, research, performances and discussions
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Member of the New York Seed Group
In collaboration with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
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Joolie Bagoolie
Joolie Bagoolie (owner, NYC) providing professional children's entertainment including magic shows
with puppets, and interactive adventure shows incorporating storytelling, imagination and play.
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Technical Theater Production
Apollinaire Theatre Company (Special effects makeup, Chelsea, MA), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
(Costume construction, Boston), Improv Asylum (Live video feed and editing, Boston), Northeastern University
(Costume and set construction, Boston), The Nightjarmen (Costume, set, mask, puppet, props, and lighting
design and construction, Boston), Fool's Journey (Lighting, costume, props, and set design, Boston),
Double Edge Theatre (Costume, set, and puppet construction, Ashfield, MA)
2017-2022
2017-Present
2010-Present
2007-2017
Teaching
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Workshop on Embodied Relational Practice
(Brooklyn, NY)
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RE^ATHETA
Workshop on ensemble practices, physicality and song, taught to theatre professionals (Barcelona)
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Physical Ensemble Theatre Workshop
Taught to Northeastern University undergraduate theatre students (Boston, MA)
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Guest Teacher and Assistant
For Northeastern University undergraduate movement theatre class (Boston, MA)
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Primal Practice
Weekly classes aimed at cultivating physical intelligence though a relational, inquiry-based physical practice
(Boston, MA)
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Researching Ensemble: Improvisation Via Song
Laboratory workshop series on integrating polyphony and physical improvisation (Cambridge, MA)
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The Drama-Play Connection
At a summer camp for kids K-12 on the autism spectrum, taught monologue prep and acting class for
high schoolers, private voice and movement class for elementary student (Weston, MA)
2019
2019
2017
2013, 2017
2016-2017
2016
2012
Skills
Butoh, yoga, partner acro, arm balances, headstand, tap, basic Tae Kwon Do, basic Parkour, basic aerial arts, stiltwalking/running/jumping, singing, polyphonic singing, musical saw, sewing, balloon twisting, valid driver's license, valid passport