JULIA GAY
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CONTACT
email: juliagay72@gmail.com
website: www.juliagay.com


EDUCATION & TRAINING
B.A. in American Studies, Urban Studies, and Theatre
St. Paul, Minnesota
Macalester College, 2016
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Mendoza, Argentina
National University of Cuyo, 2014

Ananya Dance Theatre
St. Paul, Minnesota
Dancer, 2016 - 2020

Yin Tang Dance Company
Cleveland, Ohio
Dancer, 2005 - 2011 



​AWARDS
Many Voices Mentorship, The Playwrights' Center, 2017-18
Creative Changemakers Apprenticeship, The DIAL Group 2016-17
American Studies Award for Creativity and Social Responsibility, Macalester College, 2016



ACTING (REPRESENTATIVE ROLES)  
2013-2021

Motherlanded (Gay), Director: Julia Gay, Dreamland Arts (2019)
Director: Sun Mee Chomet, Pangea World Theater (2016)
Role: One-woman show


Smart Wars: Mni Wiconi Alliance (Wakemup), Director: Rory Wakemup, Northern Spark, Role: puppeteer 

Monkeybear New Puppetworks Show (Benne), Director: Benjamin Benne, Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop, Role: puppeteer 

Sensitive Guys (Kaufman), Directors: Noel Raymond and Kat Purcell, Mixed Blood (staged reading)
Role: Amy/Pete

Lightning Rod, Director: Keila Anali Saucedo, Patrick's Cabaret 
Role: Bel, Alien C & D, Parts, Electron

at the very bottom of a body of water (Benne), Director: Marcela Lorca, Playwright’s Center (residency & public reading)
Role: Lela
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The Funny 2017, Directors: Akiko Ostlund and Andi Cheney with support from Jenny Moeller Raw Sugar
Role: Self/Ensemble

Promise Land (conceived by Diogo Lopes, devised by the Ensemble), Directors: Isabel Nelson and Diogo Lopes Transatlantic Love Affair
Role: Ensemble member

Where the Earth Meets Sky (Edyka Chilomé, Ariana Cook, and Vanessa Mercado Taylor), Director: Dipankar Mukherjee, Pangea World Theater (residency & reading)
Role: Seewu/Ayah/Soldadera

green - an elegy to summer (Kreitzer), Director: Harry Waters Jr., Playwright’s Center (residency & public reading), Macalester Mainstage (full production)
Role: Andromeda, Mag

Fostering Voice (devised by the Irreducible Grace Foundation ensemble), Director: Jan Mandell, Park Square Theater
Role: Self/Ensemble

Vagina Monologues (Ensler), Macalester MacPlayers
Role: My Angry Vagina

The Dark Room (Williams), Macalester Black Box Theater
Role: Mrs. Pocciotti

Rowing to America - The Immigrant Project (Chen), Director: Mohamed Samatar, Macalester Black Box Theater
Role: Girl

Hip Hop Hopes: What's Going On? (devised by the ensemble), Director: Harry Waters Jr., Macalester Mainstage
Role: Self/Ensemble



DANCING  
2013-2021

"Waning Crescent" (Julia Gay and Jarrelle Barton), 2021 Midwest Mixed Conference, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Role: Dancer

Sutrajāl: Revelations of Gossamer (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy
Role: Dancer/Company Member

​Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy, India Habitat Centre (New Delhi, India), Pragjyoti International Dance Festival (Guwahati, India), Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), Dance Place (Washington D.C.), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), and Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)
Role: Dancer/Company Member

Aporia (Lizzette Chapa, Julia Gay, Peace Madimutsa & Juliette Myers), Icehouse
Role: Dancer/Co-choreographer

Shyamali: Sprouting Words (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy, Utah Presents (Salt Lake City, UT), and Dance Center (Chicago, IL)
Role: Dancer/Company Member

"Just Breathe" (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, Northern Spark 2017 
Role: Dancer / Company Member

Horidraa: Golden Healing (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy 
Role: Dancer / Apprentice

"BRINK" (Julia Gay & John Stark), Macalester College Mainstage 
Role: Dancer / Co-choreographer

"Comforts" (Laura Levinson), American College Dance Association: Midwest
Role: Dancer 

"Come Home to the Heart" (Patricia Brown), Macalester College Mainstage
Role: Dancer



TEACHING & WORKSHOPS  
2015-2021

Teaching Artist & Healer, "By Us, For Us: Asian American Healing Series"
Pan-Asian Voices for Equity - Minnesota (PAVE-MN)
June 2021

Co-facilitator, "
Finding Your Community: Navigating Imposter Syndrome"
2021 KAAN Virtual Conference
June 2021

Teaching Artist
Stepping Stone Theatre
January 2019 - August 2019
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Teaching Artist, "The Great Isla Tuliro Bake Off"
Pangea World Theater
April 2018

Ananya Dance Theatre Teaching Artist, Guest Artist Residency
Young Dance
November 2017 - May 2018

Facilitator, "Opening Plenary Program"
Tri-State VISTA Conference
February 2017

Facilitator, "Poetry Mural Workshop"
Families with Children from Asia Midwest Conference
September 2016

Facilitator, International Roundtable: "Arts Literacy: Transformative Education Through Empowering Youth Voice"
Macalester College
September 2015

Teaching Artist, Creative Writing 
Creative Arts High School
January – May 2015



PLAYWRITING  
2016-2021
A Slipping Joy (Gay), Director: Hayley Finn, Playwrights’ Center (public reading)
Role: Playwright

Motherlanded (Gay), Director: Sun Mee Chomet, Pangea World Theater
Role: Playwright & Performer



STAND-UP COMEDY  
2017-2021

Performed at variety shows and open mics including The Funny 2017, Mother Goose's Bedtime Stories, Vector 8, Stand-Up for RAINN, Uproar Comedy Open Mic (headliner), PSSY CTRL, Who Is She, the UNCS Comedy Showcase, the Shui Family Meal, the Pay Gap Comedy Couch Tour and the LIVE Pay Gap Comedy & Music Festival.


FILM  
2020-2021

Motherland (Ryan Stopera), The SEAD Project, Mid-Autumn Film Festival 2021 (Minneapolis, MN) 
Role: Dancer

Dastak – The Film (Darren Johnson), Ananya Dance Theatre, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema 2021 (Colorado Springs, CO), London International Screen Dance Festival 2021 (London, England), Northrop Film Series 2021 (Minneapolis, MN)
Awarded Best Social Justice Film by Silk Road Film Awards Canne 2021
Role: Dancer


SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (Arts Learning), 2020
Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (Arts Learning), 2019
Panelist, Minnesota State Arts Board's (Artist Initiative Theater), 2018 
Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (Community Arts), 2018

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