Julia Dorn Heflin was an American journalist, theatre producer and teacher.
13 Facts About Julia Heflin
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Julia Heflin directed more than 80 theatre productions at Mount Vernon, then a private women's college before merging with George Washington University.
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Julia Heflin was one of the first Americans to work in the theatre in Russia before World War II and was a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, the Arts Club of Washington, and the Woman's National Democratic Club.
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Julia Heflin graduated from Smith College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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At university, Julia Heflin was named president of the Why Club.
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Fresh out of college, Julia Heflin joined the Hedgerow Repertory Theatre, where she acted and was assigned to the production office.
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Julia Heflin then worked briefly on Broadway in the 1930s before heading to the Soviet Union.
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Julia Heflin interviewed Nemirovitch-Danchenko, who, with Konstantin Stanislavsky, founded the Moscow Art Theatre.
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Just before the start of World War II, Julia Heflin returned to New York and began teaching acting classes in the evenings at the Laboratory Theatre in Manhattan with Lee Strasberg.
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Julia Heflin staged a play with boys at a public works settlement house and worked for Broadway producers Eddie Dowling, Oscar Serling and Lewis Gensler, and assisted Theresa Helburn at The Theatre Guild.
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Together with St John Terrell, Julia Heflin co-founded the Bucks County Playhouse, serving as director and company manager.
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Julia Heflin then began a career in radio with CBS as a staff researcher, writer and interviewer for the popular We, the People series.
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From 1956 to 1977, Julia Heflin served as the Director of Speech and Drama at Mount Vernon College until being named professor emerita.