At the age of five, Julia Dunetz saw her first Broadway play with her dad. It was Beauty and the Beast. She found herself thinking about the play for 24 out of the 24 hours of the day. So, like most young children, she decided to be in her school plays. As the years progressed, Dunetz realized that she was not going to be an actress but that theatre was more than a hobby to her.
She began to think of her business-oriented, analytical, and logical character traits and wanted to find a way to combine them with theater. Dunetz settled on the role of producer. Since, as a Cornell University undergraduate, Dunetz has produced and directed multiple pieces at Cornell, including the 2017 10-Minute Play Festival.
She has been the associate producer of a touring production of Hundred Days, a musical that tells the story of a couple who dives into the precariousness of love as if they only had 100 days to live. Dunetz has worked on multiple Broadway productions through four internships on Broadway, including Wicked, Dear Evan Hansen, Pretty Woman, and Anastasia. Dunetz will be making her Broadway producing debut in the summer of 2019 as a co-producer of Sea Wall/A Life, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge at the Hudson Theater.
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