Martin Julien

Martin Julien (he/him) has been a professional Canadian actor since the age of ten. Over time, he has also become a playwright, theatre deviser, dramaturg lecturer, and scholar.

 

Selected Theatre Credits: The Wolf in the Voice, Tarragon Theatre (co-creator and director with Brian Quirt), The Man That Got Away (A Special Appearance), Buddies in Bad Times (playwright/actor). PAIN! The Musical, VideoCab/Arraymusic (Book writer). Trace, Vertical City/Summerworks (co-creator/actor). Why We Are Here! Nightswimming - Toronto, Victoria, Calgary, Berlin (co-creator with Brian Quirt). Blue Note, Nightswimming/Harbourfront Centre (co-creator with Brian Quirt). The Unanswered Question, National Arts Centre (playwright). Cyrano of the Northwest, Caravan Farm Theatre (playwright/actor). Magic Lies: An Evening with W.O. Mitchell, New Stages, Peterborough (actor) Under the Stairs, Young People’s Theatre (actor). Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, National Arts Centre (actor).

 

Selected Film and Television Credits: Queen of Bones, Crimson Peak, Nightmare Alley Murdoch Mysteries, Haven, Lost Girls, To Catch a Killer (actor).

 

Upcoming: 12 Litres 8800 Steps, Aluna Theatre (production dramaturge).

Awards: 3 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Best Performance. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2015-2017 (CDTPS, University of Toronto). The Arthur Lindsay Fernie Research Fellowship 2017 (CDTPS, University of Toronto). The Pat and Tony Adams Freedom Fund for the Arts Award (Crow’s Theatre) 2025.      

                                                                       
He is a co-investigator in Gatherings – Archival and Oral Histories of Performance in Canada, funded as a SSHRC Partnership Grant, and his scholarly work has been published by Canadian Theatre Review, TDR, Stanislavski Studies Journal, Playwrights Canada Press, Cambridge Scholars, Intermission and Routledge.  Martin was also the senior co-editor of Playwrights Canada Press’s Theatre Passe Muraille: A Collective History, published in April 2019.

 
He has been an instructor of acting, theories of acting, play study, devised theatre, audition technique and theatre history at numerous Ontario training academies including Sheridan College, University of Toronto (St. George; Mississauga; Scarborough), Humber College, University of Ottawa, Randolph Academy, Soulpepper Academy, Toronto Film School, and York University. Martin was an associate artist with the Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong, B.C. for fifteen years, working as performer/playwright in eleven mainstage productions.
 

Read Martin Julien's PhD dissertation.