Julie Elizabeth Knell
- Actress
- Producer
- Production Department
Rewarded with Theatrical Scholarship straight out of high school she put in 2 intense years doing 6 shows a year. Roles included Elaine in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Athena in Trojan Women, Gwendolyn Pidgeon in The Odd Couple, Amanda in Glass Menagerie, Mrs. Tilford in The Children's Hour and was a company member of a touring children's theatre in New Mexico.
JulieMusically she toured for 2 years with a vocal ensemble as well through the US. Favorite musical roles have been Smitty in How to Succeed in Business and Tzietel in Fiddler on the Roof.
She went on to gain 2 years of a full Theatrical Scholarship at University including her award-winning performance of Sarah the lizard (yes a lizard in a 150 lb costume) in Edward Albee's Seascape. Also she won awards for Rona in Kennedy's Children, Kathy in Vanities and it was the start of her career as a character woman in Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Albee which he actually attended and was praising of. She portrayed an 80 year old woman who had only several lines but brought the audience to tears with her final line.
Julie began to find in how to begin to portray comedy in dinner theatre (yes, dinner theatre) for several years as Linda in Play It Again Sam, and Tiffany in Mary Mary with Linda Kaye Henning among her favorites. A few years in Dallas were the beginnings of also producing where she worked with fellow Texas playwright, Trey Hall III in his original works The Darning Tree (produced at the Dallas Theatre Center ultimately), The Brutal Necessity of Mother Superior and Axis which she also starred in.
She began writing on her own and drafted her first 2 television episodic scripts with strong kudos from production companies who read them in LA as television comedy had always been a passion..
Several years of back and forth between Los Angeles brought her eventually to New York where she also worked with Hall to workshop his plays and co-produced several off-off Bwy productions of. She was accepted into the Master Class at the Actors Institute studying under Dan Fauci who became the Senior VP of Paramount TV Comedy and Sally Fisher AIDS activist and mother of Oscar-winning director, Fisher Stevens whom she was also in class with. There she worked Patrick Breen, Willie Garson, Marisa Tomei, Clint Allen and Lisa Bonet. When the Master Class moved to Paramount in LA she followed with classmates from NY and also Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson and many others.
6 plus years in New York honed her talents and also there she was trained to be an Acting Teacher as well as certified to lead the Institute's key creativity workshop The Mastery of Self-Expression. 2 years of intensive Leadership Training brought her to then go off with Ms. Fisher for several years to lead a version of the work for People with AIDS around the country. That took her to becoming a Master Acting Teacher in Seattle with her NYC Classmate, Van Brooks at his Seattle Actors Lab. She became a Master Life Transformational Coach directly after that spending the next few years helping others to live their dreams.
In Seattle, she became tagged as the Stand-In and Double for Cynthia Geary on Northern Exposure for a season which further honed her on-set skills and learning in the TV trenches. it was a powerful year learning that season working with greats like John Cullum, Rob Morrow, Adam Arkin and Barry Corbin as well as directors James Hayman, Michael Lange, Bill D'Elia.
Her writing became more important to her and she penned her first screenplay, internet thriller Disturbance in the Field based on a script by a fellow writer. Many years in the making is her favorite script Till There Was You, an ensemble screwball comedy TV pilot set in 1957 live television. It won awards with NexTV and Scriptapalooza which set it on a path to be her best calling card script. She has written several other TV pilots, a coming-of-age feature Texas girl horse project, a theatrical darkly comic very Durang-like piece called The Office of Christ and her latest a short film black comedy about Death.
in 2015 she was cast as the upper crust Mother of the Bride in comedy indie, Zilla and Zoe which started her more deeply on a film path and she has continued ever since. Look for her dramatic cameo in indie gem Mother of Color currently on the festival circuit directed by BIPOC award-winning Dawn Jones Redstone. Bring It All Back Home the indie drama she shot in 2022 as the inappropriately dramatic Mother will also be upcoming in 2024 in festivals.
JulieMusically she toured for 2 years with a vocal ensemble as well through the US. Favorite musical roles have been Smitty in How to Succeed in Business and Tzietel in Fiddler on the Roof.
She went on to gain 2 years of a full Theatrical Scholarship at University including her award-winning performance of Sarah the lizard (yes a lizard in a 150 lb costume) in Edward Albee's Seascape. Also she won awards for Rona in Kennedy's Children, Kathy in Vanities and it was the start of her career as a character woman in Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Albee which he actually attended and was praising of. She portrayed an 80 year old woman who had only several lines but brought the audience to tears with her final line.
Julie began to find in how to begin to portray comedy in dinner theatre (yes, dinner theatre) for several years as Linda in Play It Again Sam, and Tiffany in Mary Mary with Linda Kaye Henning among her favorites. A few years in Dallas were the beginnings of also producing where she worked with fellow Texas playwright, Trey Hall III in his original works The Darning Tree (produced at the Dallas Theatre Center ultimately), The Brutal Necessity of Mother Superior and Axis which she also starred in.
She began writing on her own and drafted her first 2 television episodic scripts with strong kudos from production companies who read them in LA as television comedy had always been a passion..
Several years of back and forth between Los Angeles brought her eventually to New York where she also worked with Hall to workshop his plays and co-produced several off-off Bwy productions of. She was accepted into the Master Class at the Actors Institute studying under Dan Fauci who became the Senior VP of Paramount TV Comedy and Sally Fisher AIDS activist and mother of Oscar-winning director, Fisher Stevens whom she was also in class with. There she worked Patrick Breen, Willie Garson, Marisa Tomei, Clint Allen and Lisa Bonet. When the Master Class moved to Paramount in LA she followed with classmates from NY and also Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson and many others.
6 plus years in New York honed her talents and also there she was trained to be an Acting Teacher as well as certified to lead the Institute's key creativity workshop The Mastery of Self-Expression. 2 years of intensive Leadership Training brought her to then go off with Ms. Fisher for several years to lead a version of the work for People with AIDS around the country. That took her to becoming a Master Acting Teacher in Seattle with her NYC Classmate, Van Brooks at his Seattle Actors Lab. She became a Master Life Transformational Coach directly after that spending the next few years helping others to live their dreams.
In Seattle, she became tagged as the Stand-In and Double for Cynthia Geary on Northern Exposure for a season which further honed her on-set skills and learning in the TV trenches. it was a powerful year learning that season working with greats like John Cullum, Rob Morrow, Adam Arkin and Barry Corbin as well as directors James Hayman, Michael Lange, Bill D'Elia.
Her writing became more important to her and she penned her first screenplay, internet thriller Disturbance in the Field based on a script by a fellow writer. Many years in the making is her favorite script Till There Was You, an ensemble screwball comedy TV pilot set in 1957 live television. It won awards with NexTV and Scriptapalooza which set it on a path to be her best calling card script. She has written several other TV pilots, a coming-of-age feature Texas girl horse project, a theatrical darkly comic very Durang-like piece called The Office of Christ and her latest a short film black comedy about Death.
in 2015 she was cast as the upper crust Mother of the Bride in comedy indie, Zilla and Zoe which started her more deeply on a film path and she has continued ever since. Look for her dramatic cameo in indie gem Mother of Color currently on the festival circuit directed by BIPOC award-winning Dawn Jones Redstone. Bring It All Back Home the indie drama she shot in 2022 as the inappropriately dramatic Mother will also be upcoming in 2024 in festivals.
