BIO

​Julia Robertson is a multidisciplinary theatre maker and director living on Gadigal land. She is the current Artistic Director of the award winning devising group, the Little Eggs Collective and the 2024 Recipient of the Ensemble Theatre’s Sandra Bates Award for Directing. Julia is also 2024 Young Artists Program Finalist with Opera Australia.

Recently, Julia directed and wrote the book and lyrics for the Musical adaptation of Metropolis (with music by Zara Stanton) which premiered at the Hayes Theatre Co. in April of 2023. The musical has since won three Sydney Theatre Awards and was nominated for Best Musical in TIMEOUT Sydney's Arts and Culture Awards.

This year, Julia will direct a series of concerts for SMOS & Cunard Cruises (Queen Elizabeth), including Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel which will also have performances at Glen St. Theatre & Pavilion Performing Arts Centre. Julia will also direct The Wind in the Willows for Kincoppal Rose Bay and The Producers for Joshua Robson Productions, Hayes Theatre Co and Riverside Parramatta.

In 2024 Julia worked as the Assistant Director for Opera Australia's new production of Puccini's Il Trittico (Sydney Opera House, 2024, dir. Constantine Costi, Imara Savage and Shaun Rennie), the Ensemble Theatre's The Great Divide (Ensemble Theatre, 2024, dir. Mark Kilmurry) and The Heartbreak Choir (Ensemble Theatre, 2024, dir. Anna Ledwich) in November. She also directed Shay Debney’s one man performance of Do You Mind? for RaCreate & the Old Fitz Theatre, and led developments for RATS by Laneikka Denne and The Colour of Rust by Samuel Webster.

As a director, credits include PINOCCHIO (Little Eggs Collective), for which she received the NIDA Emerging Directors Award for Best Direction at the Sydney Fringe 2018, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Little Eggs Collective/KXT, 2019), James and the Giant Peach (Sydney Grammar School, 2022), and The Servant of Two Masters (St Vincent's College, 2023). Julia has previously assisted with Joshua Robson Productions on Bonnie and Clyde (Hayes Theatre Co. 2022) and City of Angels (Hayes Theatre Co. 2023). 

Julia is also a classically trained musician and a recent recipient of the lan Potter Cultural Trust Grant, which she used to travel to London for a residency with the Royal Shakespeare Company in February of 2023. Julia has studied acting with the Lee Strasberg Institute of Theatre and Film (New York) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London).