Julia was the Head of Voice at the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Australia for 22 years where she was instrumental in designing the voice courses currently being taught in the BA (Acting) and BA (Music Theatre). Part of Edith Cowan University, WAAPA is one of the top three Australian national schools for theatre and performance. Julia has also lectured in Voice at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (UK), the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama, the New Zealand Academy of Singing Dancing and Acting, and the University of Ballarat Academy of Performing Arts.
Julia coaches barristers on the Australian Bar Association’s Advanced Advocacy Intensive and Essential Trial Advocacy Courses and also in Singapore’s sister course run by the Singapore Law Society. She has coached across the professional services industry with the Western Australian Magistrates Conference, Western Australian Law Society, Women Lawyer’s Association, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and Leaders for Tomorrow.
Julia has worked as a voice trainer and consultant in the professional media with SBS TV and Radio since 1994, and with ABC TV, Channel 10, Open Channel, Public Radio News, RTRFM, 5UV, and 6PR. She has run specially designed voice training sessions for professional speakers in the corporate arena, education, theatre and film; and with state and federal politicians and legal, medical, financial and sporting professionals.
Julia is the patron of the Speech and Drama Teachers’ Association of Western Australia. She has been on the board of the Australian Voice Association twice and was Chair of the Blue Room Theatre, Performing Arts Society in Perth for three years.
Julia has a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University (Perth), a Graduate Diploma in Voice Studies from NIDA (Sydney). She is a fully accredited Associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework (New York), and she did her actor training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (UK).
She has also trained with the world’s leading voice practitioners: Patsy Rodenburg, Cicely Berry and Kristen Linklater in the UK, and Linda Wise from the Roy Hart Voice Centre in France.