...about
Julia Stemper was born in California and then moved. She grew up in Southern Illinois and currently lives in Chicago.
After graduating from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN Julia hopped into a moving van, towing a car, loaded with college remnants of hers and 3 others and drove to Washington, DC. She intended to stay a year and wound up staying 8. Julia had the fun of working for an amazing program at The Kennedy Center's Performing Arts For Everyone initiative which, among other things, produces The Millennium Stage, a daily free performance series. She also built a healthy performance resume, working on shows from children's productions to Fringe Festivals, and a healthy dose of new and classic works. She was one of the founders of the brief-lived Company III.ii, gave costumed ghost tours in Old Town Alexandria and ended her tenure in the District by portraying Mary Young Pickersgill at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
From DC Julia moved still further East to Glasgow, Scotland. Here she was lucky enough to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). In addition to learning how to badly fake a Scottish accent she left having studied with some of the finest theater practitioners Scotland has to offer as well as spending a month of intensive study at The Globe Theatre in London. She was lucky enough to study the Nadine George Voice Technique. Perhaps the greatest luck though Julia fell into was finding the strength, spirit and energy to form Stone Soup Shakespeare.
Now in Chicago, Julia has worked with some truly amazing companies in the city. She is a company member with The Plagiarists, with whom she performs often. She also often tours with her Stone Soup Shakespeare, a company she co-founded in 2010. Stone Soup Shakespeare reflects Julia's own dedication to creating community through theater. It is dedicated to bringing free Shakespeare plays to the Midwest for FREE; the key mission is to allow equal opportunities for audience members from all economic and geographic demographics to share in the same cultural experiences.
Julia has lofty goals of changing the world; making it as magical for others as she has found it for herself. It is easy to imagine that when she is not working on a production (acting or producing) she finds peace teaching. Julia works as a yoga instructor throughout Chicago. She also offers private acting lessons, primarily coaching actors working on auditions for undergraduate and graduate theater programs.
After graduating from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN Julia hopped into a moving van, towing a car, loaded with college remnants of hers and 3 others and drove to Washington, DC. She intended to stay a year and wound up staying 8. Julia had the fun of working for an amazing program at The Kennedy Center's Performing Arts For Everyone initiative which, among other things, produces The Millennium Stage, a daily free performance series. She also built a healthy performance resume, working on shows from children's productions to Fringe Festivals, and a healthy dose of new and classic works. She was one of the founders of the brief-lived Company III.ii, gave costumed ghost tours in Old Town Alexandria and ended her tenure in the District by portraying Mary Young Pickersgill at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
From DC Julia moved still further East to Glasgow, Scotland. Here she was lucky enough to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). In addition to learning how to badly fake a Scottish accent she left having studied with some of the finest theater practitioners Scotland has to offer as well as spending a month of intensive study at The Globe Theatre in London. She was lucky enough to study the Nadine George Voice Technique. Perhaps the greatest luck though Julia fell into was finding the strength, spirit and energy to form Stone Soup Shakespeare.
Now in Chicago, Julia has worked with some truly amazing companies in the city. She is a company member with The Plagiarists, with whom she performs often. She also often tours with her Stone Soup Shakespeare, a company she co-founded in 2010. Stone Soup Shakespeare reflects Julia's own dedication to creating community through theater. It is dedicated to bringing free Shakespeare plays to the Midwest for FREE; the key mission is to allow equal opportunities for audience members from all economic and geographic demographics to share in the same cultural experiences.
Julia has lofty goals of changing the world; making it as magical for others as she has found it for herself. It is easy to imagine that when she is not working on a production (acting or producing) she finds peace teaching. Julia works as a yoga instructor throughout Chicago. She also offers private acting lessons, primarily coaching actors working on auditions for undergraduate and graduate theater programs.
pictured in 2010 RCS production of The Winter's Tale with Mark Coleman