ARTIST BIO
Julia Croft is a live artist and performance maker based in Auckland, New Zealand. Julia’s practice draws on feminist and queer theories to create performance works that explore representational politics, violence, the body and increasingly feminist futurisms and Queer world building. She trained at as an actor at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School graduating in 2008 and has since undertaken further training at L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris in 2011 and with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in New York City in 2014/2015. Julia also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre.
She has created 10 full length works including 3 solo works: "If There's Not Dancing at the Revolution, I'm Not Coming", "Power Ballad" and "Working On My Night Moves" the latter two with Nisha Madhan as director and co-creator. These works have toured extensively throughout NZ as well as Australia, the UK, Singapore and Canada, including to the Yard Theatre (UK), Battersea Arts Centre (UK), The Cultch (CAN) and The Esplanade(SING) and LARVA(MX)..Working On My Night Moves was awarded a prestigious Total Theatre Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as an Auckland Theatre Award for Excellence.“Working On My Night Moves” was awarded a prestigious Total Theatre Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as an Auckland Theatre Award for Excellence. Other works include "The Plastic Orgasm", (co-created with Virginia Frankovich),"This was Supposed to be the Future" (co- created with Natasha Barhedia and presented in Guadalajara, Mexico) and “Medusa” (created with Nisha Madhan and Virginia Frankovich).
She works regularly as a teaching artist with young people in drama schools across Aotearoa including UNITEC, Toi Whakaari and The Actors Program.
She was part of a 3 year arts residency curated by The Basement (NZ), Forest Fringe (UK) & West Kowloon Cultural District (HK) other residencies include Time Place Space residency through Arts House (Melbourne) and Mala Voadora in Porto, Portugal.
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