Julia Gay

Julia Gay is an actor, dancer, writer, and stand-up comedian. She completed her BA at Macalester College, studying American studies, urban studies, and theatre. Julia was the recipient of the Playwrights' Center's 2017–18 Many Voices Mentorship. She is a dancer with St. Paul-based professional dance company Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), performing in ADT's most recent original works, Horidraa: Golden Healing (2016), Shyamali: Sprouting Words (2017), and Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds (2018). As an actor, Julia has worked with the Guthrie Theater, Mixed Blood Theater, Pangea World Theater, Penumbra Theatre, Pillsbury House + Theatre, the Playwrights' Center, and Transatlantic Love Affair, among others.

Between 2016 and 2018, Julia worked with Pangea World Theater, first as its Lake Street Arts! program assistant and later as its communications and community engagement coordinator. In May 2016, as part of Pangea World Theater's Lake Street Arts! Emerging Artist Showcase, Julia premiered her one-woman show, motherlanded, exploring her personal narrative as a Chinese adoptee.