ABOUT ME
Julia Kreutzer (she/her) is a director, writer, educator, and performance artist whose work centers the performance of lesbian identity. She makes campy plays about women and the people who love them. She’s currently pursuing her MFA in Theatre with a specialization in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies lesbian performance aesthetics, communal ritual, and gendered caricature. Her research postures community as theory, subject, and method, considering how queer separatist paradigms can evolve to meet the modern sociopolitical moment. These ideals of inclusion, access, and belonging directly fuel her work in the classroom and on the stage.
Her training is as gritty as her hometown of Philadelphia. Julia earned her BA from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022, where she made weird plays next to a trash room, wrote about Valerie Solanas’ feminine rage, and studied comparative politics. These interdisciplinary endeavors earned her a Brackenridge Honors Research Fellowship and a Summer Undergraduate Research Award.
As an educator, she’s taught acting courses to students as young as four to undergraduates as a part-time lecturer in theatre arts at the University of Pittsburgh, a resident artist at Pittsburgh Musical Theater and a teaching artist with Pittsburgh Public Theater. Most recently, she served as The Alloy School Coordinator at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, where she worked to establish equitable opportunities for performance and arts education, particularly for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC community members.
Centering collaboration as a cornerstone of her practice, Julia now works as a theatre-maker across multiple disciplines with work spanning from musical theatre to immersive, experimental experiences. She is a co-founder of Incline Theater Collective: an initiative aimed at nurturing new work by Pittsburgh-based artists. As a part of her performance duo, The Sororal Twins, she marries queer, avant-garde aesthetics with naturalistic performance methodologies. Her current works-in-progress use communal devising techniques to investigate structures of queer community and belonging from secluded convents to the American Girl Doll Hospital.
JULIA KREUTZER 