Melanie Julian joined the Temple University Acting Faculty in 2008. Prior to her move to Philadelphia she had been a member of the Acting Faculty at the University of California at Davis, where she headed the voice and speech curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate acting programs. She served on the MFA Acting Committee at UC-Davis, helping the department to redesign the MFA program, and she oversaw and mentored all of the Graduate Teaching Assistants. She has been an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework since 2004; she was a member of the fourth class to be certified in this vocal training technique. She worked for three years as the National Coordinator for the Fitzmaurice Voicework Teacher Training Program. She served as Secretary for the international Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association (VASTA). She has been a registered member of The Yoga Alliance since completing a vinyasa flow yoga teacher training in California in 2006, and she completed the national Actor/Combatant stage combat training in Las Vegas in 2007. She traveled to France in the summer of 2014 to study at the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart. A member of Actors’ Equity, Melanie has performed as an actor in New York, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh with such groups as Penumbra Theatre, the Minnesota Orchestra, Soho Playhouse, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, the National Theatre for Children, the Mondavi Arts Centre, EgoPo Classic Theater, Mauckingbird Theatre Company, and many others. Since moving to Philadelphia she has also been an active member of the theater community as a voice and dialect coach having worked frequently in that capacity with The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Passage Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse, among others. At Temple University she has worked every semester as a member of the MFA Acting faculty, and she served as the Interim Head of the MFA Acting in the fall semesters of 2014 and 2015, and the Interim Head of the Undergraduate Acting program in the fall of 2019.

BFA in Acting, BA in English, University of Kentucky (Summa cum Laude)
MA in Theater History, Criticism, and Theory, University of Pittsburgh (Graduated with Honors)
MFA in Acting, The Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University