“What I love about physical comedy is that I connect with every single person who comes to my show. I am letting the audience see my vulnerability and laugh at the deep stupidity of being human, which is something we all share.”
~ Julia VanderVeen
Julia VanderVeen is going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!
Julia VanderVeen’s hilarious and poignant one woman show, My Grandmother’s Eyepatch, is going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – and she needs your help to get there!
Join Julia VanderVeen at North Carolina Stage Company for a performance that celebrates the human experience. All ticket sales will finance Julia’s trip across the pond – so one ticket means a night of entertainment for you and for countless Fringe Festival goers!
What can you expect with “My Grandmother’s Eyepatch”?
The physical comedy of My Grandmother’s Eyepatch will explore the wild stages of grief and attempt to honor Julia’s beloved grandmother who died two decades ago.
Julia has always been preoccupied with the finiteness of time. At seven years old, Julia once berated her grandmother for turning on the TV because she wanted her full attention. Julia asserted: “Grandma, we have such little time together.”
Still commanding attention years later in My Grandmother’s Eyepatch, Julia utilizes the silly, joyful, and absurd skills in her armory to ask audiences to consider what they want to achieve during their short time on earth.
Frigid Fringe NYC’s ‘Best solo clown’ winner Julia VanderVeen says: “My grandmother always wanted to be a poet, and she was a poet very late in her life, but I always wondered if she really wanted to raise children or if she did it because it was expected.
“I especially feel connected to my grandmother right now, because I’m an artist in my late 30s, and I’m actively in the process of deciding whether I want to be a mother or not.
“How many female voices have not been heard because they were tired out from the immediate tasks of child-rearing?”
This performance of My Grandmother’s Eyepatch is ONE NIGHT ONLY at NC Stage — Don’t wait to get tickets to this evening of mirth, merriment, and joyful remembrance!
“My Grandmother’s Eyepatch”
written & performed by Julia VanderVeen
directed by Isaac Kessler
Friday, June 28th @ 7:30pm
Content Advisory: This performance includes moments of strong language, adult subject matter, and flashing lights.
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About Julia VanderVeen
Julia VanderVeen is a New York based actor and physical comedian. She has a degree in Music Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University. She was studying Classical Theatre and High Comedy at BADA (British American Drama Academy) when her grandmother died in 2006, and, as a result, missed attending her memorial service.
Julia has trained extensively in Clown and Bouffon, and apprenticed under head of physical theatre at Yale University, Christopher Bayes. As an actor, Julia has worked all over the United States, and performed in places as remote as Alaska, and as tropical as the Mediterranean; appearing in Hairspray on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas.
Julia has been creating clown material for the past ten years. Currently, she is developing two all female Bouffon shows: one entitled Stand Back and Stand By about the January 6th insurrection at Washington’s Capitol Building, and one entitled Supreme Cream about the Supreme Court overturning women’s rights to abortions in the US.
She lives with her husband, her two cats, and her ambitious plant collection.
