Julia Nathan is a writer, comedian, producer, and actress living in New York City. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at New York University in 2011, majoring in Dramatic Writing with two minors in Art History and Producing. She’s been studying improv since she was 12, and sketch and stand-up comedy since she was 16. She first started acting at the world-famous theater training center Stagedoor Manor, which graduated to performing in plays and musicals throughout high school. She was given the opportunity to play such roles as Addaperle in The Wiz, Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret, and Cousin Kevin in Tommy. See her full theatre and performance resume here.
In college Julia was engaged with NYU’s premier sketch comedy group HammerkatzNYU, which was founded by the members of the sketch group Derrick. In addition to being a writer and performer for HammerkatzNYU, she also acted as treasurer. She has performed with them at many comedy festivals, such as the Skidmore College Comedy Festival and the George Washington University Slate College Comedy Festival.
Julia has produced and location managed many short films and sketches, including ones by the sketch groups Unlikely Allies and Political Subversities. She also assisted in the production of a new video by viral video star Rachel Bloom, the Hugo Award-nominated writer and star of F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury (NSFW).
Julia has performed stand-up comedy at New York’s Parkside Lounge and Caroline’s on Broadway Comedy Club, as well as in front of over 300 people at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center. As a comedian and writer, she has performed at illustrious comedy theaters like the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (where she is also a student) and the People’s Improv Theater in New York. You can watch her doing weird stuff in Internet videos by Gavin McInnes [Are Women As Horny As Men? (NSFW)] and CollegeHumor, among many others. She completed her first voiceover work on the Nicktoons show Three Delivery, performing in two different episodes. She is one of the youngest people to have ever been paid for jokes used by The Onion (at age 18).
Julia was originally Patrick Swayze’s first choice to play “Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman” in Dirty Dancing, but she couldn’t, as she would not be born for another two years. She has seen every episode of Welcome Back, Kotter for some reason.
Resume
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