Artist Bio

"wickedly funny"       

 - SF Gate            

 

"relentless"

 - New Haven Register                                

 

"Who played the babysitter? 

Amazing. Huge fan."

 - Ryan Gosling ​

                                            
Justine's (she/they) collaborations include ten years of creative partnership with artist, Eva Peskin, on queer friendship, camp and collaborative world-building, and an ongoing project with artist/death doula, Kate Muehlmann, that invites the public to engage creatively with questions around death and dying. Justine has collaborated with “folk comedy” filmmakers – Shaina Feinberg (Blunderpuss) and Shannon Plumb (Towheads), and cinematic work as an actor-writer-director-producer has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, Rotterdam Film Festival, and more. Justine has created a surrealist cinema house in the back of a box truck (Lost Horizon Night Market), sung original music atop a boom-lift for a mechanical ballet (Empire Drive-In, Queens Museum), performed in radical re-imaginings of Moliere farces (Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep), and presented contemporary clown & commedia shows (from the backrooms of Mexican restaurants to NYC's snazziest stages). Her work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater,  Ars Nova, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art, Orchard Project, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, and Dixon Place. She is an Affiliated Artist & former fellow with New Georges.

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On faculty at the Yale School of Drama (now DGSD) since 2013, she teaches acting through play, facilitates the development of new work and guides collaboration across creative disciplines. She has led workshops around the globe - teaching, collaborating & presenting new work in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, South Africa, Germany, England, France, Canada, and Brazil. She is a sought-after creative coach for artists of all ilks and an acting coach for performers through her private Brooklyn-based studio, The Spring!

 

Justine received her MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College.