Julie Lyn Barber

Julie Lyn Barber

Website: http://www.JulieLynBarber.net

   3300 N CR 800 E, Parker City, IN

Dr. Barber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Purdue University Fort Wayne where she is Head of Musical Theatre. She has received IAC grants to perform with the Hot Jazz Preservation Society in Indiana State Parks and Historic Sites, and to write and produce a new musical, Indiana Squirrel Stampede and two new children’s plays, The Elves and the Shoemaker and The Frog Prince, and to develop her original musical, Madwomen’s Late Nite Cabaret. She has written many stage adaptations of fairy tales in the British panto style, which have been produced at the Minnetrista Faeries Sprites and Lights Festival (Muncie, IN), Nettle Creek Players (Hagerstown, IN) and IndyFringe (Indianapolis, IN). Two of her plays have won inclusion in the juried festival, DivaFest of Indianapolis: the ten-minute fable, Tamlane, and the one-act musical parody, Madwomen’s Late Nite Cabaret. Her musical Christmas Through the Ages played 3 consecutive Decembers at the Indyfringe Basile Theatre as well as in Florida.

As a stage director, her experience ranges from opera to children’s theatre, directing outreach productions for the Bloomington Early Music Festival of Indiana, and the Marjorie Lawrence Opera Theatre in Carbondale, IL. Other directing credits include Working (American Heritage Theater Project, Portland, OR), Clue: The Musical (Farmland Dinner Theatre, Farmland, IN), and Guys and Dolls (Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY)

She has served as music director and choreographer for many schools and theatre companies in Oregon (American Heritage Theater Project, Cathedral School, Valley Catholic High School) and Indiana (Taylor Theatre, Muncie Civic Theatre, Monroe Central High School, Farmland Dinner Theatre), recently music directing Guys and Dolls at the Round Barn Theatre in Nappanee, IN, and choreographing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Western Kentucky University.

She is an AEA membership candidate, and has performed the role of “Berenice” in Cabaret Poe for it’s entire 10 year run with Q Artistry (Indianapolis, IN). She has played numerous roles in theatre and musical theatre productions in Canada and the United States, including Vancouver B.C.’s Theatre Under the Stars, Portland Oregon’s Northwest Classical Theatre Company, and Portland Center Stage. While in Portland, she co-founded the American Heritage Theater Project.

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