Julia Mackey Julia was born into a very active theatre family in Birmingham, England and moved to Canada when she was three years old. She grew up in Montreal, and received an education degree from McGill University before heading out west in 1993 to pursue acting and writing. In 1995 she started doing just that with Victoria’s Theatre SKAM, and has since worked with many other theatre companies throughout BC, Alberta and Manitoba. In 2005, she won the CBC International One-Minute Playwriting competition in Wells, BC. She lives in Vancouver with her partner, actor and cartoonist Dirk Van Stralen, whose single panel cartoon, vanstralen, appeared weekly in The Georgia Straight for 17 years. It can still be seen in Victoria’s Monday Magazine.http://www.skam.ca/http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals/monday/shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1
about the playwright/performer three photos © Nicholas Halpin; headshot photo © Michael Ford