Julia Noulin-Merat

julia noulin-mérat  is a triple American, Canadian and French citizen.  Her design studio is in the heart of Manhattan, by Columbus Circle. Ms Noulin-Mérat is the Director of design and production for the Boston based, Guerilla Opera, and is the resident set designer for the New York based,Attic Theatre  and Exit, Pursued By A Bear.

Select opera credits: Madama Butterfly (Opera New Jersey, El Paso Opera); Lucia di Lammermoor, Cosi Fan Tutte (Commonwealth Opera), Heart of a Dog, Say it Ain't So, Joe (Guerilla Opera), The Barber of Seville (Opera Institute), The Elixir of Love (Sugarcreek Festival), Little Red Riding Hood and The Telephone (Opera Boston- education program). Select theatre work: Penelope of Ithaca, November (Hangar Theatre), Dark Rapture, Moonchildren (Attic Theatre), These Seven Sicknesses (Exit, Pursued By A Bear); Haunted House (Audax Theatre- Irish Art Centre), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot(Gerald Lynch Theatre- Lincoln Centre), Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Memory House and The Firebugs (Apollinaire Theatre). TV: Guiding Light
(CBS), Inside The Actors Studio: Jim Carrey (Bravo).

Ms Noulin-Mérat was recently nominated for the Rising Star design award and selected to participate at the USITT Young Designers’ Forum in Houston, Texas.  She won the honorable mention/ Barbizon Award for her design of the production First Blush and she was selected to participate at the First Word Stage Design Exhibition in Toronto. Ms Noulin-Mérat also had the privilege of being a lab company designer for the Hangar Theatre and has been a returning mainstage designer since. She has been the set designer for The Drama League for the past 2 years. In 2011, Ms Noulin-Mérat launched the Noulin-Merat Studio App.

Ms Noulin-Mérat has a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, in Design for the Theatre, a MSc in Arts Administration for Performing Arts from Boston University; and an MFA in Scenic Design from Boston University.