Julia Locascio is a theatre and opera director focused on collective creation and new forms.  She frequently collaborates with writers and composers to make new work with big-hearted characters and a mischievous relationship to structure. She directs ensemble plays with hallucinatory design, new music theatre, outdoor spectacles and avant garde dinner theatre. She is passionate about the surreal and the weird. 

From 2011-2021 Julia was Artistic Director of The Waking Theatre, a devising company with a focus on adaptation and immersive Shakespeare that produced work in New York, Chicago, London and Edinburgh.

Julia has also 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, Guildhall, the Young Vic, British Youth Opera, San Jose State University, and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.

Training: BFA NYU Tisch, MFA Birkbeck.

2018 SDC Charles Abbott Musical Theatre Fellow.

Proud member of Stage Directors UK.