This is the mildly meandering version – for the edited highlights see the CV page.

Stage 1 – Student Years

• From 2001 to 2005, Julia Studied French and German at Cambridge University.
• During this time, she was involved in student theatre productions ranging from serious old school stuff through new writing to musicals and comedy.
• It was when playing Sybil in Noel Coward’s Private Lives that she thought she might be well suited to the funny stuff – a suspicion that was confirmed when an audience member said they liked the humour she brought to Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (not generally considered a gag a minute role).
• She decided to try stand-up when she one day found herself saying she couldn’t imagine ”anything worse” than doing stand-up comedy.  Later that day she watched the News and realised that maybe there were a few worse things than comedy after all, and that maybe she should give it a crack. 
• At this point, it might be worth mentioning that Julia is what some might term an “organised personality” (what others might term “anally retentive”), and the thought of being able to perform regularly without the pesky interference of “Others” was quite appealing.
• (Although, of course, she has since matured and now enjoys a thoroughly collaborative approach to performance, in case you’re wondering if it would be a good idea to work with her).
• Her first go at stand up was at Newnham College and it went well – she knows this because when she walked off stage, her then boyfriend, who had been doing comedy for quite a long time, said “you bitch!” (in a good way).
• This rosy first experience gave her the confidence to try a few more gigs in Cambridge, London and Brighton.
• But her uni years were coming to an end and it was soon time for her to put her exhibitionist tendencies to one side and enter the Real World.

Stage 2 – The Real World 

• After University, Julia went straight into working as an Outreach and Development Worker at an excellent youth charity called Fairbridge.
• Comedy took a back seat for a while, as she learnt this new trade by day and studied psychology by night.
• After a couple of years, Julia decided it was time to delay her progression into adulthood once more and go travelling.

Stage 3 – Travelling

• Julia made her way through Asia, savouring the diverse cultural delights that this continent has to offer and getting squiffy with other shallow, self-indulgent backpackers.
• She finally arrived in Australia, a country that she thought she probably wouldn’t like very much, in fact she was pretty sure she’d prefer New Zealand, and that 4 weeks would be all she needed to explore before heading back home.

Stage 4 – Australia

• She was, of course, wrong.  Australia was excellent and after one day in the country she was hooked.  She got herself a working holiday visa, then a job, then sponsorship, and realised she was in for the long haul.
• But all was not rosy Down Under.  Julia missed her neurotic funny friends, and wasn’t sure how to meet more of them.  Then a friend suggested she give comedy another go – no shortage of neurotic funny friends there – and so she did.
• Her first year of comedy in Oz brought many a lucky break.  From tentative pub gigs, she made it through to the final of the Comedy on the Rox comp and was one of four acts picked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to take part in Comedy Zone – a festival sponsored new talent showcase.
• Since Comedy Zone, Julia has moved to MC and feature spots, recently supporting Eddie Brimson (UK) in the Best of British season at the Sydney Comedy Store.
• Unfortunately, her time in the happy country is about to come to an end, as she’s decided it’s time to give the comedy a “real go” in the UK, where gigs abound and she’s allowed to work wherever she wants without the pesky restrictions of visas and the such like (I mean, really, she’s a nice person – can’t she just live and work where she wants?  Apparently not, say the Australian Authorities.   And she respects them for their consistent stance.)

Stage 5 – UK (tbc)