Artist Bio

"wickedly funny"       

 - SF Gate            

 

"relentless"

 - New Haven Register                                

 

"Who played the babysitter? 

Amazing. Huge fan."

 - Ryan Gosling ​

                                            
Justine's (she/they) collaborations include ten years of creative partnership with artist, Eva Peskin, on queer friendship, camp and collaborative world-building, and an ongoing project with artist/death doula, Kate Muehlmann, that invites the public to engage creatively with questions around death and dying. Justine has collaborated with “folk comedy” filmmakers – Shaina Feinberg (Blunderpuss) and Shannon Plumb (Towheads), and cinematic work as an actor-writer-director-producer has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, Rotterdam Film Festival, and more.

 

Justine has created a surrealist cinema house in the back of a box truck (Lost Horizon Night Market), sung original music atop a boom-lift for a mechanical ballet (Empire Drive-In, Queens Museum), performed in radical re-imaginings of Moliere farces (Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep), and presented contemporary clown & commedia shows (from the backrooms of Mexican restaurants to NYC's snazziest stages). Her work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater,  Ars Nova, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art, The Orchard Project, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, Dixon Place, UNM's Art and Media Lab. She is an Affiliated Artist & former Audrey fellow with New Georges.

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On faculty at the Yale School of Drama (DGSD) since 2013, she teaches acting through play, facilitates the development of new work and guides collaboration across creative disciplines.

 

A celebrated teacher, she has led workshops around the globe - teaching, collaborating & presenting new work in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, South Africa, Germany, England, France, Canada, and Brazil. She runs The Play Society, a roving school and creative lab for training and new work development through an ethos of play and collaboration. 

 

She is also a sought-after creative coach for artists of all ilks, and an acting coach for performers through her private Brooklyn-based studio, The Spring!

 

Justine received her MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College.