Julia Locascio is a theatre and opera director focused on collective creation and new forms. She works with writers and composers to make new work with big-hearted characters and a mischievous relationship to structure. 

She has directed ensemble plays with hallucinatory design, new and classic musicals, outdoor spectacles and avant garde dinner theatre, including Shakespeare's CYMBELINE, Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork's LONDON ROAD, Mary Zimmerman's METAMORPHOSES, Sondheim's FOLLIES and MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. She has also developed adaptations of THE TIGER'S BRIDE by Angela Carter, THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE by Aimee Bender, Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz's love letters (WOMAN ON PAPER), and a new jazz improv musical based on UNCLE VANYA. She is passionate about the surreal and the weird. 

Julia has worked widely as an associate director and designer in London’s West End, with the RSC, The Old Vic, Punchdrunk, and on the first US tour of WAR HORSE.  She has taught for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview Academy, ArtsEd, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Young Vic, British Youth Opera, San Jose State University, and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She has received awards and grants from Arts Council England, the Theatre Development Fund, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, YoungArts (formerly the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts) and the Drama League.

Training: BFA NYU Tisch, MFA Birkbeck.

2018 SDC Charles Abbott Musical Theatre Fellow.

Proud member of Stage Directors UK.