IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMING I WOULD HAVE WORN EYESHADOW
Teaser Trailer for new in-development piece presented at The Tank on February 11, 12, 18, and 19, 2020
MARCH 2021
03/15: Julie J will be creating and performing in a new piece with her collaborator Sarah Finn for Movement Research and their open performance presentations.
03/2021: Julie J was named a Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement NYC for the 2021-2022 season. She looks forward to exploring new ways of creating work and support systems and further incorporating “drag” into the contemporary art and theater landscape.
JANUARY 2021
12/25 - 01/22: Julie J’s new show FAULTY DEFENSE MECHANISMS will premiere on YouTube. A digital drag theater dump, Faulty follows Julie J as she grapples with life on the precipice of greatness. Is she stupid for considering herself on the precipice of greatness? Probably. Does she have knowledge about life beyond planet Earth? Naturally. Is she brilliant for the 6-inch heels that she’s wearing as she walks the line between Black nonsense and gender euphoria? Absolutely. 5 weeks, 5 numbers, 5 possibilities of oversharing.
DECEMBER 2020
12/18 - 12/19 - Julie J will be performing in La Mama ETC’s intergenerational queer performance festival SQUIRTS!
MARCH 2020
March - April 2020: Julius will be a resident actor in Will Frear’s new director-lab Mercury Store where they will be working with a number of notable directors on works-in-progress.
March 13, and 14th: Julius will be performing in a workshop of Dan Giles’ new play MIKE PENCE SEX DREAM at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Ticket information will be posted shortly.
FEBRUARY 2020
02/11, 02/12, 02/18, 02/19: Julius’s performance piece IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMING I WOULD HAVE WORN EYESHADOW will be having 4 workshop performances in New York City at The Tank. Tickets will be available starting on January 15th. This performance will also mark the start of Julius’s new arts production group Butch Queen Collective. More information will be shared in the near future!
JANUARY 2020
January 15 - 25: Julius will be performing in Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed created by Marcella Murray and Tony-nominee David Neumann at Abrons Arts Center in January.
Tickets can be purchased at this link: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/distances-smaller-than-this/
OCTOBER 2019
10/13: Julius will be performing in a class show for the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Improv 401 Class taught by Caroline Fiona Martin
SEPTEMBER 2019
09/15: Julius will be performing in a class show for the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Improv 401 Class taught by Caroline Fiona Martin
AUGUST 2019
Dates TBA: Julius will be performing in Cross Talk written by Eliana Pipes and directed by Aaron Simon Gross as a part of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival. More information on show dates/times and tickets will be available soon.
08/03, 08/10: Julius will be performing in All Heroes Do written by Karina Cochran and directed by Victoria Gruenberg at The Secret Theater as a part of their annual Long Island City One-Act Play Festival. Tickets are available at https://secrettheatre.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=65
JULY 2019
07/01 - 07/02: Julius will be performing in a staged reading of Dox Modern Middle written by Megan Pope and directed by Aaron Simon Gross
07/10, 07/18, 07/26, 08/03, 08/10: Julius will be performing in All Heroes Do written by Karina Cochran and directed by Victoria Gruenberg at The Secret Theater as a part of their annual Long Island City One-Act Play Festival. Tickets are available at https://secrettheatre.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=65
JUNE 2019
Julius completed La Mama Experimental Theater Club’s Next Generation Artists Residency program in Italy where “Eyeshadow” was developed. He is hoping to continue developing and showcasing the piece internationally and in the United States.