Donkeys. Music. Shakespeare. Pixies. What if the wrong way is really the best way? What if the side quests turn out to be the main adventure? What if turbulence is more fun and rewarding than smooth sailing? And how is your brain like slime mold? Solo artist and jack of all trades Julie Lyn Barber has a mission: to figure out how to build an authentically joyful life while constantly being told (by the world or her anxiety) that she’s doing it wrong. Through stories, observations, and song snippets, she offers a candid, heartwarming, and hilarious guided tour of the chaotic inner workings of her mind, not to mention some fun facts about…well, all sorts of things, because one of her defining characteristics is the need to learn everything about everything. Enjoy a peek behind the mask of this crafty chameleon. What you see might even help you discover your own Youkali. Written and performed by Julie Lyn Barber. Directed and dramatuged by Dr. Michelle Dvoskin.
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Cast
Julie Lyn Barber
Actor
Julie Lyn Barber grew up in a small town near Ottawa and almost studied kinesiology at the University of Guelph. Instead, she attended the University of Western Ontario, during which time she had the opportunity to perform in productions directed by 2 influential Canadian stage directors (both former artistic directors of London’s Grand Theatre.) She played “Rapunzel” in Into the Woods, directed by Dennis Garnhum, and “Johanna” in Sweeney Todd, directed by Bernard Hopkins. Her experience with these wonderful productions led her to pursue a career in the performing arts. She moved to Vancouver, where she played “Maria” in West Side Story at Theatre Under The Stars then to the U.S. where she has continued her career as an actor, singer, director, choreographer, music director and playwright. Some of the theatres with whom she has had the privilege of working include: Portland Center Stage (Gypsy), triangle productions! (Falsettos, Blood Brothers, Nunsense Ah Men!, Angry Housewives), Actors Theatre of Indiana (Whodunit…The Musical, Titanic), Round Barn Theatre (Baker’s Wife, The Music Man, Shenandoah, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Plain and Fancy, Guys and Dolls, All Shook Up, Crazy For You), and the Richmond Shakespeare Festival (Hamlet, As You Like It). Dr. Julie Lyn Barber has also taught performing arts in higher education for 25 years and is currently Head of Musical Theatre at Purdue University Fort Wayne, in Indiana, U.S.A.
Creative Team
Michelle Dvoskin
Director
Theatre artist, scholar, and educator Dr. Michelle Dvoskin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Western Kentucky University. Primarily a director and intimacy choreographer, she also has experience as a new works dramaturg, performer, and playwright. Some directing highlights include Stop Kiss, Crimes of the Heart, Into the Woods, These Shining Lives, Hair, and The Revolutionists. As an intimacy choreographer, she’s worked on productions including John Proctor is the Villain, Eurydice, Something Rotten, Little Women: The Broadway Musical, and various student created pieces featured in WKU’s biennial New Works Festival (for which she’s also the Artistic Director). Her love of new work has led her to develop and teach courses in solo performance, adaptation, and dramatic writing. Dvoskin is also a published scholar whose primary research interests lie at the intersections of musical theatre, queer theory and performance, and feminist theatre and performance.
Michelle Dvoskin
Dramaturg
Theatre artist, scholar, and educator Dr. Michelle Dvoskin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Western Kentucky University. Primarily a director and intimacy choreographer, she also has experience as a new works dramaturg, performer, and playwright. Some directing highlights include Stop Kiss, Crimes of the Heart, Into the Woods, These Shining Lives, Hair, and The Revolutionists. As an intimacy choreographer, she’s worked on productions including John Proctor is the Villain, Eurydice, Something Rotten, Little Women: The Broadway Musical, and various student created pieces featured in WKU’s biennial New Works Festival (for which she’s also the Artistic Director). Her love of new work has led her to develop and teach courses in solo performance, adaptation, and dramatic writing. Dvoskin is also a published scholar whose primary research interests lie at the intersections of musical theatre, queer theory and performance, and feminist theatre and performance.
Julie Lyn Barber
Playwright
Originally from Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada, Dr. Julie Lyn Barber is a versatile actor, singer, director, choreographer, music director, and educator, based in Indiana, USA. Her original musicals have been produced in the U.S. and Canada including fringe festivals in Montreal, Vancouver, and Indianapolis. Some of the theatres with whom she has had the privilege of working include: Portland Center Stage (Gypsy), triangle productions! (Falsettos, Blood Brothers, Nunsense Ah Men!, Angry Housewives), Actors Theatre of Indiana (Whodunit…The Musical, Titanic), Round Barn Theatre (Baker’s Wife, The Music Man, Shenandoah, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Plain and Fancy), Richmond Shakespeare Festival (Hamlet, As You Like It), and Theatre Under the Stars, Vancouver (West Side Story). She is Assistant Professor of Acting and Musical Theatre and Head of Musical Theatre at Purdue University Fort Wayne. She regularly teaches master classes in Spolin improvisation, musical theatre techniques, and singing, and has given presentations on the importance of providing failure-training opportunities for students, the integration of singing and dancing techniques, training transgender singers, and challenging gender bias in entertainment. www.julielynbarber.net , Insta @julielynbarber, FB @julielynonstage
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