Juli Crockett

Juli Crockett
Juli Crockett in 2008
Born	August 1, 1975 (1975-08) (age 41) Enterprise, Alabama, US
Nationality	American
Occupation	Playwright, theater director, musician, retired professional boxer

Juli Crockett (born August 1, 1975) is an American playwright and theater director, retired professional boxer and amateur champion, lead singer of the alternative country band The Evangenitals, ordained minister, and producer of The 1 Second Film. Born in Coffee County, Enterprise, Alabama she is the daughter of writers Linda Crockett and Daniel Savage Gray.

Crockett studied Theater at Pinellas County Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, received a BFA in acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (1996) and MFA in directing at the California Institute of the Arts (2001). She received her PhD in the Philosophy of Media and Communication at the European Graduate School (2013), graduating summa cum laude, where she is the Director of Alumni Relations. Her dissertation, "Void Creation: Theater and the Faith of Signifying Nothing" was published in 2013 by Atropos Press, New York.

Crockett recently completed an Artist in Residency at the California Institute of the Arts that focused on developing her new play Saint Simone. Her residency was completed between November and December 2015.

As a playwright/director, Crockett is best known for her adaptations of classic works of literature. Crockett has composed scores for experimental opera pieces in addition to her directing and playwright experience.

The spoken word opera [or, the whale] is an adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick written and directed by Crockett with music by sonic artist and Avatar: The Last Airbender composer Jeremy Zuckerman. The piece debuted in Los Angeles in 2001, was presented at the 2001 Moby Dick Conference at Hofstra University, and performed by the TENT group in Portland, Maine in 2004. In 2013 the piece was remounted for a reading with the Poor Dog Group prior to publication by Delere Press. [or, the whale] was published in 2014 by Delere Press, Singapore, with illustrations by Ivy Maya.