Julia Ott

Actor/Director

Julia’s play, “The Sound of Water”, premiered at the the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this past summer. A gripping physical theater piece set in the drought-ravaged American West that explores climate change, scarcity of agricultural resources, and the stories we lose when our lands disappear.

She is in the middle of writing a short comedy web series entitled “The Community Library” that follows the lives of three small town librarians as they try to stop a local book ban.

Currently…

Sound of Water Reviews

“The shock ending of The Sound of Water is the perfect finish to such a profound and moving play. The audience are left in stunned contemplation in a way few other statement-making Fringe shows manage to achieve. Director Julia Ott has pulled off a unique and terrific debut.”

- The Student

The Sound of Water is an elegant and inventive piece of theatre—beautifully directed, musically rich, and performed with commitment.”

- The Theatre Reviewer

“The direction, by Julia Ott, is fluid and precise, and you get the feeling she is familiar with this subject and its physical environment.”

- The Fringe Review