Julie Douglas
Director, Healthcare Clowning
Julie Douglas is an actor-creator, teacher and clown. She is currently the Director of the Dell’Arte Healthcare Clowning Program. While on faculty at Dell’Arte Julie has taught the Michael Chekhov Technique, the Alexander Technique, Clown Plus, Healthcare Clowning, Improv/Play, Mask performance and more. She also directed the 42nd Annual Dell’Arte Company Holiday Show, Nightlight, A Winter Solstice Story, which toured to rural communities throughout Humboldt county and Here Comes the Flood, with Dell’Arte’s Professional Training Program. As Head of Arts Engagement Julie facilitated a variety of activities, exchanges, service projects, and learning opportunities between local community groups and Dell’Arte. She has been seen on the stages of Humboldt in The Poor of New York, Love’s the Best Doctor, and in various cabarets at Dell’Arte as well as in NCRT’s A Christmas Carol and local drag shows.
Before returning to Humboldt four and a half years ago, Julie spent eleven years in the Bay Area where she was on faculty at American Conservatory Theatre and St. Mary’s College as well as a teaching artist with a variety of Bay Area schools and companies from youth to adults. While in the Bay Area she performed with We Players, S.F. Shakes, Idiot String, Cutting Ball, Impact Theatre, Shotgun Players, as well as in clown cabarets and devised theater festivals. Julie was a healthcare clown with the Medical Clown Project for six and half years and currently sits on their board. She is a certified Michael Chekhov Technique instructor and is a graduate of SOMA studios (Minneapolis) Alexander Technique Teacher Training program. Julie is a 2010 alumna of Dell’Arte International’s MFA and holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Julie is committed to de-centering white privilege, cultivating belonging and solidarity through creative play, and is continuously honing her skills to be a thoughtful and adept co-conspirator in the movement for social justice.
