Julia Frey
Acting Resume & Gallery
Recent Credits
Containertopia / Casual FreyDay
April 2017 - Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
September 2017 - Philly Fringe Festival
CONTAINERTOPIA is a 21st-century take on vaudeville that looks at the ever-shrinking living spaces that city-dwellers submit themselves to. With synthesizer-heavy Weimar cabaret tunes, original music, and projection-based set design, our multimedia cabaret explores and exposes the popular trend of tiny living. What afforded to us is affordable?
CONTAINERTOPIA was the first production by Casual FreyDay, a producing partnership with Sam Day Harmet that pools our respective experience in music and theater to concoct works that bring new media technology into live performance. We not only devised, wrote, and composed the show, we were responsible for designing, editing, and programming these multimedia performances.
O Monsters
New Paradise Laboratories
Capital Fringe at Arena Stage
dir. Whit MacLaughlin
July 2018
Julius Caesar
In rep with The Wild Duck
Quintessence Theatre Group
dir. Alexander Burns
April-May 2018
Uncle Vanya
Quintessence Theatre Group
dir. Alexander Burns
June 2017
Claire Kiechel's Lulu Is Hungry
ANT Fest at Ars Nova
dir. Philip Gates
June 2016
Our Heroes, Our Time
Brooklyn Museum
Co-created with PIMA
May 2016
The Three Musketeers
Quintessence Theatre Group
dir. Alexander Burns
Spring 2015
Naturalistic Commercials
Samuel French OOB Play Festival
dir. Tara Ahmadinejad
July 2015
Kafka's The Metamorposis
Quintessence Theatre Group
dir. Rebecca Wright
May 2016
The Adults / New Paradise Laboratories
September 2014
A world-premiere presentation at FringeArts 2014, THE ADULTS blends NPL’s patented high-wire physicality with the writings of Anton Chekhov, the fleshy visual art of Eric Fischl, and the rigorous experimentation of John Cage. Featuring two generations of NPL performers – the old gang mingled with the new – along with sound by experimental music wizard, Bhob Rainey.
"It’s goddamn beautiful. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since, like a dream you have that lingers in the corners of your mind for two days." --Mikala Jamison, Philadelphia City Paper
10 Unnamable Spectacles / New Paradise Laboratories
Summer 2013
Around Philadelphia, 10 UNNAMABLE SPECTACLES popped up in outdoor festivals, gallery events, and night markets throughout the summer. On the fringes of fringe, a mix of NPL company members and select accomplices went public with projection, magnetic lights, and the angel of history blown backward into the future.
Life and Times / Nature Theater of Oklahoma
September 2013
For Episode 2 of LIFE AND TIMES, the OBIE-winning marathon show must cast a local chorus each time it is produced. For FringeArts 2013, a stellar group of performers learned mind-jumbling choreography and eight-part harmonies in a matter of days. (Also joined the massive ensemble for Nature Theater's POETICS, at Under the Radar at the Public Theater in 2008.)
PROM / New Paradise Laboratories
April 2013
The last party of childhood, PROM combines the familiar end-of-high school initiation rite with a football game. It is a template play -- characters and scenarios are newly invented for every production. Originally comissioned by the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis, PROM was remounted as part of the professional artist residency at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, with a cast of students, faculty, and NPL company members.
The Exquisite Corpse Project / Soulless Conglommerate
Released April 24, 2013
THE EXQUISITE CORPSE PROJECT brings together five comedy writers, and surprises them with a challenge: to each write fifteen pages of a movie, having read only the previous five pages of the script. The result is equal parts comedy, psycho-sexual thriller, children's television show, love story, and supernatural adventure. Meanwhile, documentary footage provides an inside look into the creative process and the group dynamics that make collaboration between friends difficult.
27 / New Paradise Laboratories
September 2012/May2014
First produced as part of the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 27 visits dead rock star purgatory. The famed musicians who died at the age of 27 are part of a party stuck in repeat, unable to transcend to what lies beyond celebrity/notoriety. Featuring live music by Alec MacLaughlin, looping the music of the 27 Club with his original compositions.
"It's gorgeous, heartbreaking, funny, and terrifying all at once...the cast's explosive athletics, make for a hypnotic visit with martyred rock royalty." --Wendy Rosenfeld, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Seagull
Quintessence Theatre Group
dir. Alexander Burns
June 2012
Teen Wolf/Teen Wolf Too
Mount Tremper Arts Festival
dir. Jibade-Khalil Huffman
August 2011
ComedySportz
Improvisational Comedy
dir. Dave Jadico
June 2002 - present
Bachelorette
Luna Theater Company
dir. Gregory Campbell
February 2012
Some Editing and Some Theme Music
FringeNYC/New Orleans Finge
dir. Jean Ann Douglass
August - November 2009
Hairspray
Royal Caribbean
dir. Mark Norris
September 2010 - May 2011
Education
Brooklyn College
MFA - Performance and Interactive Media Arts
Bard College
BA - Theater
Faculty advisor: JoAnne Akalaitis
British American Drama Academy / London Theatre Program
Upright Citizens Brigade / Improv and Sketch
Magnet Theater / Improv and Sketch
Pig Iron Theatre / Clown and Mask Intensive
Wilma Theater / Voice
Atlantic Theater / Acting and Monologues
A People's History of Silicon Valley / Casual FreyDay
June 2019 - ANT Fest at Ars Nova, New York, NY
May 2018 - Live Composition Festival, Brooklyn, NY
February 2018 - Ammerman Symposium, Connecticut College
Silicon Valley’s influence extends well past the Bay Area, affecting global markets, international labor practices, and technological advancement. But as that technology advances, are society’s structures shifting, growing, or crumbling? Can we still have a synth-pop dance party in the face of these realities?
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY is a synth-pop infused show with a techno-futurist gaze toward our current tech industry, inspired by Keith Spencer's eponymous book. Following 2017's CONTAINERTOPIA, our multimedia production blended wry social commentary, audio-visual experimentation, and an original soundtrack suited to MTV circa 1982. The show's creator/performers Julia Frey and Sam Day Harmet were joined by fellow musicians/disrupters Erica Mancini and Steve LaRosa.