JULIA ROSA SOSA CHAPARRO is a storyteller, director, and songwriter originally from Ciudad Juárez. Her work centers on uplifting immigrant and BIPOC communities across the United States.
Recent directing credits include The Bird Blind at Playwrights Realm, A Christmas in Ochopee at New Native Theatre and Life is a Dream at the University of Oklahoma. In Cleveland, she has directed Marisol and In the Time of the Butterflies at Cleveland Public Theatre, and has assistant directed Native Gardens and Antigone at Cleveland Play House.
Her musical and performance work can be experienced through the duo Lúnatic, where audiovisual experimentation is not only welcomed but encouraged.
As a playwright, her piece El Toro y la Niña became a radio play for the ReUnion rEvolución: A Latinx New Works Festival. El Romántico, her first musical, supported by the Assembly for the Arts' Creative Impact Fund, had its first workshop in 2024 at Julia de Burgos Cultural Art Center. The musical explores the emotional disconnect between fathers and daughters during adolescence.
Aesthetically, her work is colorful, playful, musical, simple when needed, maximalist when possible. Driven by a hungry curiosity, she constantly places herself in learning environments that deepen collaboration with actors and designers and enrich the experience for audiences.