Julian Lopez-Morillas is a professional theater actor, director, and teacher who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1973. He has performed for all the major Bay Area theaters as well as the Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, McCarter, and Chicago’s Court Theatre. He directed for many years with the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and also for the Marin Theatre Company, Berkeley Jewish Theatre, San Jose Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the American Players’ Theatre in Wisconsin. He has taught acting, directing, theatre history, and Shakespeare for the University of California/Berkeley, San Jose State, Mills, Foothill, and Solano Colleges. In 2008, Julian fulfilled one of his life goals by performing the role of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, thus becoming one of the few individuals to have performed professionally in all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays. He is recognized throughout Northern California as a leading authority on Shakespeare plays and their performance. Julian has also been a two-day winner on JEOPARDY! |
