Theatre directing credits include:

We’ll Be Who We Are by Naomi Obeng

set & costume design TK Hay / lighting design Lucía Sánchez Roldán / sound design Munotida Chinyanga / movement director Nadia Sohawon / stage manager Emily Darley / production company & producer WoLab, Alistair Wilkinson

Cast: Tracy - Joanne Marie Mason /Kit - Joshua Merara / Emery - Adam Tutt

production photography Olivia Spencer

VAULT Festival, London (March 10-12, 2023)

Smoke by Kim Davies 

co-direction Polina Kalinina & Júlia Levai / designer Sami Fendall / lighting design Rajiv Pattani / sound design Jamie Lu / intimacy director Asha Jennings-Grant / stage manager May Curtis / production manager Misha Mah / co-producers Katy Galloway & 3heartscanvas 

production photography Lucy Hayes

Southwark Playhouse, London (1-25 February 2023)

Reviews include:

One of the many fascinating things about Kalinina and Levai's work here, in tandem with Davies's cracking writing and a truly remarkable cast, is how such an abstract presentation makes so vivid and specific these characters and the worlds they inhabit.(★★★★ WhatsOnStage)

This is directed with such imagination and clarity by Co-Directors Polina Kalinina and Julia Levai that the 70 minutes running time flies by. There isn’t a wasted moment or lull in action. (★★★★★ Theatre News)
 
 ★★★★ Theatre Weekly
 ★★★★ Everything Theatre
 ★★★★ London Theatre Reviews
 ★★★★ British Theatre Guide
 ★★★★ All That Dazzles
 ★★★★★ The ArtsDesk

Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

Performed by final year BA Acting company

Intimacy direction: Ro Winchester / Musical direction: Naomi Ost / Lighting: Matthew Keywood / Sound: Racheal Corrigan & myself / Costume: Emily Sion / Stage management: Cora Parkinson

St Mary’s University, London (November, 2022)

Did I Wake You? by Margaret Perry

Cast: Silas Carson & Stuart Thompson

Young Vic as part of Five Plays (Jerwood Assistant Director Program)

The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist

(in a new version by Neil Bartlett, freely adapted by Júlia Levai)

set and costume design: Zoe Brennan / lighting design: Neil Brinkworth / sound design: Alistair Lax / stage manager: Anna Short

Cast:

Cecily Schmidt, Anna Mawn, Oliver Maynard, Will Bishop (LAMDA)

Lucy Mackay, Will Bishop, Sam Stafford, Esme Scarborough (The Space)

September at Carne Studio, LAMDA & December at The Space, London (2019)

★★★★ “Júlia Levai, freely adapting and directing this production of The Prince of Homburg, has come up with some innovative ideas for casting and staging” (Dominica Plummer, The Spy in the stalls, 2019)

There Has Possibly Been An Incident by Chris Thorpe

performance and costume design: Georgie Hook

Cast: Evie Jones, Sophie Shepherd, Christian Loveless

production photography Greg Tiani

Blue Elephant Theatre, London (November 2018)

Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch

A conceptual project developed over 8 weeks in collaboration with designer, TK Hay.

A LAMDA & Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama project (2019). 

Mr Saxon’s by John Chisham (and company)

a verbatim cabaret

performance and costume design: Georgie Hook / producer: Maisie Pearson / sound design & composition: John Chisham 

Cast: Ted Weston, Max Manning, Sophie Shepherd, Angel Lloyd, Christian Loveless, John Chisham, Carrie Morrison, Alex Sabau

Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 2018)

“It was all singing, all dancing, well crafted, fantastically funny […] I genuinely laughed the whole way through and I loved the design and the world created drew me in completely” (The Yorker, 2017)

Amphibious (devised by company)

performance and costume design: Georgie Hook / music: John Chisham / dramaturgy: Dan South

Cast: Annabel Lee, Lydia Crosland, Lucy Sherratt, Dan South, Kane Hutchinson, 

Studio Theatre, York Theatre Royal (2017)

“Julia Levai’s increasingly distinctive and consistently enjoyable style paired with a talented cast and crew has made an ebullient piece of theatre that avoids being pinned down quite so simply. And, to put it bluntly, it was a great time” (Unknown Magazine, 2017)

“An integral part of Amphibious’ charm was the fact that it was able to address worries that many young people have about their future, whilst still being incredibly funny” (The Stray, 2017)