JULIA BUMKE Local Address: Permanent Address: [email protected] 15 Irving Street, Apt
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JULIA BUMKE Local Address: Permanent Address: [email protected] 15 Irving Street, Apt. 2 362 Morris Ave. 201.486.7197 Somerville, MA 02144 Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School. M.F.A. Candidate | Dramaturgy and Theater Studies, June 2015. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. A.B., Magna cum laude | United States History, with Theater and American Studies concentrations, June 2013. • Academic Senior Thesis, From Upstarts to Institutions: How W. McNeil Lowry Transformed America’s Nonprofit Theaters. Sean Wilentz, Advisor. • Creative Independent Thesis, Program in Theater: Directed Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George, Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theater Center. Tim Vasen, Advisor. HONORS AND PUBLICATIONS • Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award | Princeton University Program in Theater, Spring 2013. • Asher Hinds Prize for Excellence in American Studies | Princeton University Program in American Studies, Spring 2013. • Published What History Can Teach Us About Arts Philanthropy in the Age of Obama | HowlRound: Journal of the Theater Commons at Emerson College, January 2013. • Published Rock ’n’ Revolution: How the Prague Spring’s Cultural Liberalism Transformed Czech Human Rights | The Yale Historical Review, Spring 2012. • Finalist, Edwin F. Ferris Prize for Journalistic Writing | Princeton University Council for the Humanities, May 2012. • Award for Outstanding Theatrical Work by a Sophomore | Princeton University Program in Theater, Spring 2011. ARTS EXPERIENCE Theatrical Director: • Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine | Berlind Theater at McCarter Theater Center, April 2013. • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Thornton Wilder | Matthews Acting Studio at Princeton University, January 2013. • Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti | Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, July 2012 (also produced). • Rock ’n’ Roll, Tom Stoppard | Princeton Theatre Intime, November 2011. • Illyria, Peter Mills and Cara Reichel | Princeton University Players, Matthews Acting Studio, November 2010. • Please Have a Seat and Someone Will Be With You Shortly, Garth Wingfield | Princeton Theatre Intime, February 2010. Dramaturg: • War Dept., Jim and Ruth Bauer | American Repertory Theater 2014-2015 Mainstage Season (January 2015 expected). • Elemeno Pea, Molly Smith Metzler | American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training, January 2014. • Sextet, Tommy Smith | Workshop Production at American Repertory Theater with Playwrights of New York 2.0, October 2013. • New Scripts Evaluator, A.R.T. Literary Office | July 2013-present. • Strange Faces, Andrea Grody | Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts, April 2011. Teaching: • Harvard College Teaching Fellow | DRA 130r: Directing, Marcus Stern, Fall 2013. • Education and Community Outreach Fellow | Led workshops at Boston Latin School based on the American Repertory Theater’s production of All the Way, Fall 2013. • Education Intern, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | Taught students ages 10-14 in the Junior Corps Acting Program about approaching Elizabethan texts, Summer 2008. Artistic Producer and Communications Director: Princeton Summer Theater, January-September 2012. • Co-ran Princeton Summer Theater, a 501(c)3 nonprofit theater company, with more than 7,000 annual patrons for its five-play season. • Programmed the season, auditioned and hired actors, and helped manage the 15-person full-time company. • Led Princeton Summer Theater’s stewardship campaign, soliciting donors, commercial sponsors, and season subscribers. • Cultivated a 150-person donor base and 600 season subscribers. • Ran a marketing campaign that used print and online publicity, bulk mailings, social media, and an email newsletter. • Organized all media coverage from local newspapers, including press releases and media packets. • Conceived, designed, and developed online content, including dramaturgical notes, articles by company members, and production photos. Costume Design and Wardrobe: • Costume Assistant, Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts | Constructed and helped design costumes for productions including My Fair Lady, God’s Country, Good Person of Szechwan, Hamlet, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 2009-2013. • Costume Designer, Princeton Summer Theater | A Little Night Music, Gaslight, Boeing Boeing, and The American Plan, Summer 2012. • Costume Designer, Princeton Theatre Intime | Copenhagen, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Pavilion, and Seven Stories, 2010-2012. • Wardrobe Intern, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | Around the World in 80 Days, The Little Foxes, School For Wives, and Noises Off, Summer 2009. French Horn Performance: • Harvard University Dudley House Orchestra: September 2013 to present. • Princeton University Orchestra: September 2009-June 2013. • The Juilliard School Pre-College Division: Degree in French horn performance, September 2006-June 2009. COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCE Princeton University Press Club, Princeton, NJ | Freelance Journalist, Fall 2009 to June 2013. • Central New Jersey reporter for The Newark Star-Ledger, The Princeton Packet, Voice of America, and Princeton Alumni Weekly. Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships (ACCESS), Boston, MA | Media Manager, May-August 2011. • Led ACCESS’s Social Media Campaign, developing the Boston education nonprofit’s presences on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn. Conceived, designed, and developed content for ACCESS’s two new blogs. .