Julia Hurley

Julia Hurley is a director, actress, playwright, and theatre artist who graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Drama. Her directing work at UVA included Christopher Durang’s ‘dentity Crisis and a staged version of Mike Bartlett’s radio play Not Talking, which deals with the issue of rape in the military. Other directing work includes a staged reading of Nina Raine’s Tribes, which features the use of sign language, as well as a site-specific production of Caleb and Rita by Jessica Moss for Offstage Theatre’s Barhoppers Series. More recently, she has worked as an assistant director and projections designer for the Telluride Playwrights Festival’s production of The Hispanic Women’s Project. She has made her D.C. theatre debut in 2016 directing staged reading of No Word in Guyanese For Me with The Rainbow Theatre Project, and as the lead actress in 4615 Theatre Company’s production of Aliens With Extraordinary Skills.