Juli Hendren is a teacher, producer, director, writer, actor, and devisor. She was born in Houston and started performing when she was four years old. She moved around throughout her childhood eventually landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she attended the University of New Mexico on the Edwin Snapp Acting Scholarship. She continued her training in physical theatre with Gardzienice Theatre Practices in Poland, the Open Theatre, and Double Edge Theatre. She studied corporeal mime and Grand Guignol with Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. She studied clown, bouffon, and clown for teachers at the Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance in Canada.

Juli is a founding member and was the executive director of Tricklock Company, a devised, international touring ensemble based in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1993-2020. She has worked on hundreds of shows in various capacities including 15 original ensemble-devised shows and five solo shows. Juli has toured work to Edinburgh, New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Seattle, Los Angeles, Glover, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, Bogota, Beijing, Warsaw, Lublin, Szczecin, Belgrade, Kiev, Koln, Budapest, and Prague. Juli was an integral part of The Revolutions International Theatre Festival for 20 years, through which she has produced events from over forty different countries around the world.

Juli held the position of Curator from 2012-2020 and produced Pussy Riot, Ndere Troupe, DAH Teatr, and Violeta Luna to name a few. She is a co-Director of Revo Inc, an international exchange program for young artists. Juli is also the Albuquerque supervisor for C-Worx, a reality-based training organization that utilizes theatre to work with first responders throughout New Mexico and Colorado on communication, mediation, verbal de-escalation, and mental health awareness. Juli believes in the power of theatre to bear witness, reckon with our past, build humanity, exercise both truth telling and future visioning, and embrace the wholeness and complexity of all people.