Julie Goell

Director, Actress

Julie Goell grew up in Rome where she learned from the masters of Commedia dell'Arte. As a performer in Europe, she worked in music, theater, film, television, and recording. Ms. Goell toured with the clown troupe "I Gesti" and taught physical comedy skills at Teatro Studio in Rome where she got her teacher certification for physical comedy. She acted in the Broadway production of Ghetto and directed several U.S. regional productions in the comic vein. Ms. Goell plays bass with the Casco Bay Tummlers klezmer band and tours with her solo mopera Opening Night...Carmen which previewed at Diorama Arts Center in London. Ms. Goell also teaches at Dell'Arte and is a theater adjunct at the University of Southern Maine. She trained and choreographed Commedia for Sarasota Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos. She has taught at the Max Rheinhardt Schule in Berlin, Boston University, and San Francisco State, among others.

• Fall & January 2006/2007
  • Irving D. Suss Guest Artist
  • Directed The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
  • Taught Directing and Acting for Musical Theater

• Fall 2005
  • Irving D. Suss Guest Artist
  • Directed A Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
  • Performed her one-woman show Opening Night: Carmen
  • Co-Taught Clowning and the Art of Commedia

• Fall 1990
  • Directed The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni
  • Performed her one-woman show Woman in a Suitcase
  • Taught Commedia Dell'Arte

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