Julie Hamelin

Julie Hamelin was born in Montreal in 1972. At the age of twenty-one Julie co-founded the Cirque Éloize, a leading circus company that has won international acclaim.

As head of International Development of the circus, she has concluded key agreements and launched a partnership network allowing the company to present its shows in the world’s most renowned theatres and at international festivals and on Broadway. By 2010, the circus had staged over three thousand performances in more than three hundred cities in thirty-five countries.

In 2001 Hamelin met Daniele Finzi Pasca and developed a working relationship with the Teatro Sunil. For the Cirque Éloize, she has produced three shows created by Daniele Finzi Pasca – Nomade, Rain and Nebbia (co-produced by the Cirque Éloize and the Teatro Sunil).

In 2003, while working on Rain, she launched her own production company, Théâtre T et Cie. The company currently manages international tours of the show Typo by Jamie Adkins, seen onstage in the Cirque Éloize’s second production, Excentricus.

In the summer of 2005, Daniele Finzi Pasca invited Julie Hamelin to join his production team for the closing ceremony of the Turin XX Winter Olympics Games. As Assistant Director, she is involved in the writing process; she also works with the Production Department and co-ordinates the ensemble choreographies as they are being created.

In 2009, Julie Hamelin and Daniele Finzi Pasca founded the production company Inlevitas in order to develop and give life to new artistic projects including opera, acrobatic theatre and cinema. The project’s first independent project was the opera L’Amour de loin for the English National Opera in 2009; Julie was Creative Associate of this production. She also worked on preparations for the publication of Facundo Ponce de León’s book Daniele Finzi Pasca: Theatre of the Caress.

Inlevitas was the co-producer of Donka – a Letter to Chekhov, staged and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Chekhov’s birth. Julie Hamelin was Creative Associate of this production. The world premiere of Donka took place in Moscow on 29 January 2010. The show is currently touring internationally.

Julie Hamelin and Daniele Finzi Pasca are currently working on their first film project as well as preparing the opera Aida at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.

In 2011 Julie Hamelin founded the Finzi Pasca Company together with Maria Bonzanigo, Daniele Finzi Pasca, Hugo Gargiulo and Antonio Vergamini, combining the Teatro Sunil and the Inlevitas production company.