Julian trained at RADA 1984–1986 and worked as an actor in theatre, television and film until 2019. In May-June 2026 Julian was part of the acting company at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in the world premiere of Eclipse written and directed by John Morton (W1a and Twenty Twenty).
Julian is a Senior Lecturer in Acting at Rose Bruford College, where he both teaches and directs. His work with first-year actors is focused on the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Sanford Meisner. With second-year actors, he teaches non-naturalistic dramaturgies in Semester 1 and Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama in Semester 2. He also teaches Dramaturgy to L4 and is Contextual Study Coordinator across all three years of the BA Acting and Actor Musician Programmes.
For several years he has – jointly with colleague David Zoob – delivered a workshop on Brecht for the MA Directing course at Birkbeck College and has also run workshops on Brecht and Shakespeare for the East 15 directors’ course. He contributed a chapter of 50 practical exercises to The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin (published by NHB).
Julian is currently co-editing – with Dr Michaela Antoniou of the University of Athens – Stanislavsky and Emotion: Approaches through Language and Culture for Routledge. For the past four years he has been working with students on filmed scenes from Shakespeare’s plays for the Cambridge University Press New Shakespeare Edition (forthcoming). Julian has been a visiting lecturer at The University of Malta for several years and is Associate Editor of Stanislavski Studies.