ABOUT | Julia Harris

ABOUT ME

Julia Harris is a New Mexican theatre and film actress, performance artist, singer, musician, and designer. It all began with her first role when 8 year old Julia played Squanto for the Thanksgiving school play! Then spending many years focused on music, she dabbled in everything from flute, picallo, tenor saxophone, to oboe, guitar, ukulele and keyboard. Julia then started studying theatre and acting over ten years ago, traveling several times to New York for training and London for a workshop.

Harris is a graduate from the University of New Mexico, having received her BA in Theatre, with an acting emphasis, Departmental Honors, Magna Cum Laude. While in school, beyond immersing herself into acting and theatrical studies, Julia wrote and performed many performance art pieces, participated in street-theatre troupes, designed theatre and dance costumes, and traveled to Beijing, China as a musician and actress in a production at the First Asian Theatre Schools Theatre Festival. In addition, Harris took many women's studies courses, which continue to influence her performance art and writing. She also studied Spanish and traveled abroad in Spain several summers.

In 2011, as part of her Senior Thesis, Julia wrote and performed her own one-woman show, Marie Antoinette in her Toilette Eating Cake. The hour long piece delves into the life of the tragic Queen of France, elaborately weaved with a deconstruction and examination of what it truly means to be consumed by an eating disorder (the mental disorder with the highest death rate, and affects 7-10 million women, and one million men in America). Harris garnered departmental honors at graduation with her script and thesis. The play went on to be accepted at The Filling Station’s 2011 Solofest, where Julia and her piece were directed by the Two-time Tony Award winning Robin Lane. Her script and performance received marvelous reviews, and the show opened up a safe space for conversation and sharing of the traditionally taboo subject of eating disorders. Such an incredible and humbling experience for Harris, who is now working on adapting the story for a short film.

Since graduation, Julia's favorite recent theatrical productions include playing Catherine in the Mother Road Theatre Company's produciton of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, and Karen in Mamet's Speed the Plow at The Vortex. Harris has also spent the past several years immersing herself into the world of indie film. Taking workshops, training, auditioning and booking short films, music videos, commercials and a small role in her first feature film Abe Makes A Movie. Harris has enjoyed working with the local Black Shepard Productions in several great projects, most recently Sitter, which won several awards at the 48 Hour Horror Film Project. In 2012, for the 48 Hour Music Video Project, with Lindele Media for local musician Todd and the Fox, and the music video, Moses Studdered, won 2nd place for Best Video, and was awarded Best Acting.

Harris is a also costume designer and fashion designer, having designed in college for dance and theatre productions, as well as Vanities directed by Robin Lane in the Fall of 2011 at The Adobe Theatre.

Harris signed with the wonderful Mitchell & Presley Talent Group, New Mexico's choice for top talent, in April of 2013. Her latest commercial for Presbyterian Healthcare Services recently came out, and her ENDWI commercial for NMDOT played locally during the Superbowl. She was also estatic to participate in the local indie film Abe Makes a Movie, coming soon. A recenlty booked co-star role on the A & E Network show Longmire will air on July 21st, 2014.

Julia is currently working on several film projects, auditioning and designing. Acting has always been her dedicated passion, and she is ardently pursuing a life in film and the theatre.