Julie Tamiko Manning

Pronouns: She/her

Julie Tamiko Manning is an award-winning Montreal actor, theatre creator and mentor. Selected acting credits include: Sin in Paradise Lost (Centaur), Marion in The Team On The Hill (Blyth Festival), Annie in Jean Dit (Théâtre D’Aujourd’hui), Elena in Butcher (Centaur), Isabella Bird in Top Girls (Segal), and Emilia in Othello (Scapegoat Carnivale).
Her first play, Mixie and the Halfbreeds (with Adrienne Wong), about mixed identity in multiple universes, was first commissioned as a radio play by CBC, then adapted for the stage for Neworld Theatre in Vancouver. It was recently produced by fuGEN in Toronto and directed by Jenna Rodgers. Her 2nd play, The Tashme Project: The Living Archives (with Matt Miwa), a verbatim retelling of the Japanese Canadian internment experience, recently toured to Montreal (Centaur), Toronto (Factory), Vancouver (Firehall) and Ottawa (Prismatic Arts Festival/GCTC) and was published by Canada Playwrigts’ Press last summer.
She is currently working on Mizushōbai- The Water Trade, commissioned by Tableau D’Hôte Theatre, about Kiyoko Tanaka Goto, a Japanese picture-bride turned ‘underground’ business woman in 1930’s British Columbia.

She is a mentor for Imago Theatre’s mentorship program, ARTISTA and Black Theatre Workshop’s AMP.