JULIA MAURO BUMKE [email protected] | 201.486.7197 .

EDUCATION Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University | M.F.A., Dramaturgy and Theater Studies. Residencies at the American Repertory Theater and the Moscow Theatre School. • Master’s Thesis: Expanding Boundaries, Staying True: A Case Study of the American Repertory Theater’s Evolution. | A.B., Magna cum laude: United States History, with Theater and American Studies. • Academic Thesis, From Upstarts to Institutions: How W. McNeil Lowry Transformed America’s Nonprofit Theaters. • Creative Thesis: Directed Sunday in the Park With George, Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theater Center. • Additional Research: "Theatre’s Communications Groupie:” How W. McNeil Lowry’s Theatre Communications Group Transformed The American Resident Professional Theater. The Juilliard School | Pre-College Division, degree in music performance (French horn), 2009.

HONORS • Harvard University Certificate for Distinction in Teaching | Harvard College, Fall 2013 Term. • Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award | Princeton University Program in Theater. • Asher Hinds Prize for Excellence in American Studies | Princeton University Program in American Studies. • Award for Outstanding Theatrical Work by an Underclassman | Princeton University Program in Theater.

PUBLICATIONS • Lessons from the Gogol Center | Theatre Communications Group Circle, June 2014. • Rock ‘n’ Revolt! Pussy Riot & Moscow Theater vs. the Russian Status Quo | Culturebot: Maximum Performance, 2014. • Contributing Writer and Copy Editor | American Repertory Theater Guide, 2013-Present. • What History Can Teach Us About Arts Philanthropy in the Age of Obama | HowlRound, January 2013. • Rock ’n’ Revolution: How the Prague Spring’s Cultural Liberalism Transformed Czech Human Rights | The Yale Historical Review, Spring 2012.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Press and Publicity Manager, Williamstown Theatre Festival | 2014 Season. • Managed operations of the publicity office, including a five-person full-time staff. • Coordinated critical and features coverage for outlets including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Berkshire Eagle. • Organized opening night coverage, including press releases, comp tickets, and media packets. • Managed press and coordinated press junkets featuring Festival artists, including Nina Arianda, John Doyle, Renée Fleming, Kathleen Marshall, Chita Rivera, and PigPen Theatre Co. • Subsequent Broadway transfers for 2014 Season productions Living on Love, Fool for Love, and The Visit. Development Assistant, American Repertory Theater | 2014/2015 Season. • Drafted grant proposals, conducted donor research, generated patron copy, contributed to donor and patron event planning (annual gala, season launch, opening nights, backstage tours), and managed donor database. Experience with Tessitura. Marketing and Development Manager, Boston Public Works Theatre | 2014-2015 Season. • Generated press releases and media packets, and coordinates critical and features coverage, for this playwright-led theater collective in the style of 13P. • Fostered relationships and plans donor events with seed money donors, who financed the company through IndieGoGo. Communications Director and Artistic Producer, Princeton Summer Theater | 2012 Season. • 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. • Cultivated a 150-person donor base and 600 season subscribers and led the theater’s annual stewardship campaign, soliciting donors, commercial sponsors, and season subscribers.

ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE Dramaturgy: • Patient Zero, Diedre Murray and Cornelius Eady | In development with Music Theatre Group (Diane Wondisford, Producer). • Crossing: A New American Opera, Matt Aucoin | World premiere at American Repertory Theater, dir. Diane Paulus, June 2015 (also Music Associate and Music Preparation). • Music Assistant, We Live in Cairo, Daniel and Patrick Lazour | Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, June 2015. • Voices of World War I | Dramaturg and Curator, Dir. Allegra Libonati. Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center, Feb. 2015. • Literary Consultant, | Moscow Art Theatre, Spring 2014. • Elemeno Pea, Molly Smith Metzler | Dir. Scott Zigler, A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training, January 2014. • Sextet, Tommy Smith | Dir. Ed Iskandar, A.R.T. Workshop with PoNY 2.0, October 2013 (also Line Producer). • War Dept., Jim and Ruth Bauer | Dir. Melia Bensussen, A.R.T. Workshop December 2013 (also Line Producer). Literary: • New Scripts Evaluator, A.R.T. Literary Office | July 2013-June 2015. • Script Reader, Williamstown Theatre Festival Arnold L. Weissberger Award | 2014 Season. • Research Assistant, Transcriber, and Interviewer | Off-Broadway Oral History Project at Primary Stages, 2014.

Panels and Conferences: • Conference planner and Coordinator, 2015 M.F.A. Dramaturgy Retreat | University of Massachusetts at Amherst. • Dramaturg and Artistic Curator, In Our Time: The Great War at 100 | Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University. • Moderator and Panelist, Princeton Alumni in the Arts panel | Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library. • Moderator and Interviewer, A Conversation with | Matthews Theater, McCarter Theatre Center. Theatrical Directing: • A Temporary Matter, Jhumpa Lahiri, adapted by Julia Bumke | A.R.T. Institute Workshop. • Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim and | Berlind Theater at McCarter Theater Center. • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, | Matthews Acting Studio at Princeton University. • Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti | Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater (also produced). • Rock ’n’ Roll, | Princeton . • Illyria, Peter Mills and Cara Reichel | Princeton University Players, Matthews Acting Studio. • Please Have a Seat and Someone Will Be With You Shortly, Garth Wingfield | Princeton Theatre Intime. Music Experience: • Music Associate and Copyist, Crossing: A New American Opera, | A.R.T. with Music Theatre Group, June 2015. Experience with Sibelius and Finale notation softwares for vocal and orchestral scoring. Included orchestral workshop with Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry, October 2014. • Copyist and Music Associate, Crossing orchestral workshop | Virginia Arts Festival Composer's Institute, Spring 2015. • The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division | Degree in music performance, September 2006-June 2009. Relevant Coursework: Music Theory, Ear-Training, Music History, Orchestral Performance. Javier Gandara, private instructor. • Relevant Undergraduate Coursework: Music Theory (two-year sequence), Ear-Training, Music and Film, Jazz Symphonies of the 1920s, The Music of Stephen Sondheim. • Music Director, Princeton University Triangle Club Spring Show, 2012. • Harvard University Dudley House Orchestra, French horn. • Princeton University Orchestra, French horn.

REFERENCES • Ryan Scott McKittrick, Director of Artistic Programs and Dramaturg, American Repertory Theater: [email protected]. • Megan Hinckley, Director of Development, American Repertory Theater: [email protected]. • Stephen Kaus, Producer, Williamstown Theater Festival: [email protected].