Julie Tamiko Manning - Teaching-artist, Acting program

Julie is an award-winning actor and theatre creator from Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. She is Co-Artistic Producer of Tashme Productions with Ottawa artist, Matt Miwa. Their documentary play, The Tashme Project, a verbatim account of the Japanese Canadian internment experience, is being adapted into a graphic novel in collaboration with five Nikkei artists from across the country. Her latest play Mizushōbai- The Water Trade, about Kiyoko Tanaka Goto, a Japanese picture-bride turned ‘underground’ business woman in 1920’s British Columbia, was produced in October 2023 by Tableau D’Hôte Theatre in Montreal.
In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada Carol Bolt Award, the Quebec Writers’ Federation and was nominated for a META (Montreal English Theatre Award) for Outstanding New Text.
She is currently writing a new play, 孤村 Lonely Village, about her grandfather’s life as a haiku poet.

Selected acting credits include Three Women of Swatow (Centaur), Thy Woman’s Weeds (Centaur), Beyond The Sea (Hudson Village Theatre), Jonathan: a seagull parable (Surreal SoReal/ Geordie), Paradise Lost (Centaur Theatre), Jean Dit (Centre du Théatre d’Aujourd’hui), Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Stage Play (RustWerk Refinery), Butcher (Centaur Theatre), and Othello (Scapegoat Carnivale/Segal Centre).

Julie is a proud Sansei (third generation) Japanese Canadian and is a member of Montreal’s newest taiko group, Shima no Taiko.