Julie Lisnet

Biography

Julie Arnold Lisnet is an actor, director, producer and Adjunct Professor and teaches Fundamentals of Acting for the School of Performing Arts and The Bard for Actors: Performing Shakespeare as well as Shakespeare from Page to Stage for the Honors College. She received her BA in Theatre and MA in Acting from UMaine and has worked for Penobscot Theatre, Maine Theatre, Theatre of the Enchanted Forest, The Assembled Players, Marsh Island Stage, Shakespeare on the River, Maine Shakespeare Festival, Northern Lights Theatre and True North Theatre. She is a founding member/actor/producer/director for Ten Bucks Theatre Co. and has directed TBT’s productions of The Bald Soprano, Terra Nova, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (2010), Hamlet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (co-director), The Tempest, Death of a Salesman, The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Elephant Man, Spoon River Anthology, (co-directed/produced, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (2022), and most recently she produced and assistant directed Henry V for the company. For UMaine she has directed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Curious Savage, Rumors, The Mineola Twins, Twelfth Night, Terra Nova (2022), and Rabbit Hole. Directing credits also include The Odd Couple and Arsenic and Old Lace for The Grand in Ellsworth.

Favorite roles include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Sister Mary in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Nat in Rabbit Hole, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sybil in Fawlty Towers, Louise in Always…Patsy Cline, Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Van Helsing in Dracula, Mrs.Webb in Our Town, Mattie Fae in August Osage County, Annie in Calendar Girls and Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter. She was most recently seen in Ten Bucks Theatre’s production of The Book of Will in spring 2024. Julie was extremely honored to make her directorial debut for Penobscot Theatre with PTC’s production of Becoming Dr. Ruth in spring 2022. In the fall of 2023 she directed Crimes of the Heart for Penobscot Theatre’s 50th season opener. She also directed Shrek the Musical for Orono High School in November 2024 and Matinicus, A Lighthouse Play for Penobscot Theatre in March 2025.