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Biography

Julia Moriarty holds a PhD in Theatre from Wayne State University, an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College, and BAs in Theatre and Psychology from Drake University. She has worked as a director, dramaturg, performer, and teaching artist throughout the country, notably at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in Detroit, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Kansas City. She is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. She has worked as an Intimacy Director in educational and professional theatre and received her training from Heartland Intimacy Design and Training. Julia is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Etudes, a theatre and performance studies journal for emerging scholars. She has also served in leadership with the Mid-America Theatre Conference and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Her research engages narratology within contemporary performance and media studies.