Julie Lyn Barber is a Canadian music and theatre artist based in Indiana, where she is Head of Musical Theatre at Purdue University Fort Wayne. She is also Co-Director of Queerly Creative Lives, and Main Street Artists.

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She is active as an actor, director/choreographer/music director with companies like Actors Theatre of Indiana, Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), The Round Barn Theatre and the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Indiana, and triangle productions!, Northwest Children's Theatre, Northwest Classical Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars (Vancouver), Portland Opera Association, and  Portland Center Stage on the West Coast.

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She can also be found crooning jazz tunes at venues like Feinstein's at Hotel Carmichael, singing early music with the Kekionga Early Music Collective, or fronting bands like "The Steampunks" and "Earl Eye and the Space Pirates" at venues like the Conner Prairie Headless Horseman Festival. Her original musicals have been produced in the U.S. and Canada.