Julie Ann Earls

Julie Ann Earls was born in Paramus, New Jersey. Her mother is from the Philippines; she came to the United States in her mid 20s to work and send money back home to fund her younger siblings' education. Her father is from an Irish-American family in northern New Jersey. Her parents met while working at a bagel shop together. Julie Ann had an interest in acting and singing from an early age, performing and taking classes in a local community theater. For high school, she attended Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, NJ, where she was in the Visual and Performing Arts academy with a focus in Theater. She then went on to attend college in Boston, receiving a BFA in Acting from Boston University. After college, she moved to New York City, where she acted in the downtown theater scene in productions such as The Mysteries at the Flea, a nearly 6 hour long epic theater piece written by 45 playwrights with each playwright writing an episode of the Bible. It was through that production that she met Matt Cox and other actors who would later create "Puffs, Or; Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic", a Potter comedy play based on the series but from the lens of the Puffs characters. "Puffs" started it's run at The People's Improv Theater and was only supposed to have five performances. Through word-of-mouth, the show had a sold-out run at the PIT for nine months. The production then moved Off-Broadway to the Elektra Theater for about a year. The show's final home was at New World Stages where it was filmed live. "Puffs" is now being performed in schools and communities within the U.S. and Canada as well as internationally. Julie Ann now resides in Los Angeles.