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. 

Julia has also developed staged adaptations of THE TIGER'S BRIDE by Angela Carter, THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE by Aimee Bender, WOMAN ON PAPER, a dance theatre dramatisation of Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz's love letters and VANYA'S, a new jazz improv musical based on UNCLE VANYA. She is passionate about the surreal and the weird.  

She teaches acting and directing for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview Academy, ArtsEd and the Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing. Past teaching includes classes and workshops for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Young Vic, the Old Vic, the RSC, the Lyric Hammersmith, British Youth Opera, San Jose State University, and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. 

Julia has worked 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. 

2018 SDC Charles Abbott Musical Theatre Fellow. Awards and grants from Arts Council England, the Theatre Development Fund, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts and the Drama League.

Proud member of Stage Directors UK. BFA NYU Tisch, MFA Birkbeck Theatre Directing.