DIRECTING WORK (SELECTED):

Radiant Boy by Nancy Netherwood (upcoming)

set & costume design Tomás Palmer / lighting design Lucía Sánchez Roldán / sound design Patch Middleton / fight & intimacy coordinator Haruka Kuroda / music coordinator Elinor Peregrin / stage manager Heather Smith / producer Cloudburst Productions / assistant producer Ben Middleton

Cast: Stuart Thompson - Russell / Renée Lamb - Steph & Voice / Wendy Nottingham - Maud / Ben Allen - Father Miller

Southwark Playhouse, London

tickets: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy/.

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

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

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

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 & at The Space, London

★★★★ “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)

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

Vanishing co-created by Tingying Dong, Júlia Levai & Blythe Brett (In development - R&D sharing)

writers: Tingying Dong, Naomi Obeng, Júlia Levai & Blythe Brett

cast: Joanne Marie Mason & Laila Alj

Vanishing received a seed commission from LAMDA’s MishMash Festival in 2024.

An earlier version of the piece co-created by Tingying Dong & Júlia Levai and performed by Yasmine Haller & John Chisham was part of LAMDA’s MishMash Festival in 2022.

production photography by Zoe Birkbeck

Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch

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

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

Did I Wake You? by Margaret Perry (digital)

Cast: Silas Carson & Stuart Thompson

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