Julia Moriarty holds a PhD in theatre from Wayne State University in Detroit. She also holds an
MA in theatre education from Emerson College and dual BAs in Theatre and Psychology
from Drake University. She is also a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting
Technique with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. She has served as an instructor
at Wayne State University and California State University, Bakersfield. She has also
worked as a director, dramaturg, and performer throughout the country, notably at
the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in Detroit, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, and The Living
Room Theatre in Kansas City. Julia is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Etudes, a theatre and performance studies journal for emerging scholars. She has also served
in leadership with the MidAmerican Theatre Conference and the Theory and Criticism
Focus Group within the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Her research focuses
on depictions of motherhood and childlessness in Contemporary American Drama.
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