Julia Mounsey + Peter Mills Weiss (USA)
Authors / Theater / Directors / Theater
Originated in New York City, this performance team writes, directs and produces for the theater.
Julia assisted with the New York City Players, Soho Rep Theater, Hungarian National Theater, and was assistant director on Young Jean Lee’s STRAIGHT WHITE MEN. Peter has performed and collaborated with companies such as 600 Highwaymen, The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, and The Wallace Shawn-André Gregory Project.
Since 2017, the duo has presented their work at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, La MaMa, JACK, Soho Rep Theater, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and the Munich Volkstheater’s Radikal jung Festival, amongst others.
Works
PROTEC/ATTAC
2022
Premiere: Schauspielhaus Hamburg
WHILE YOU WERE PARTYING
2021
Soho Rep Theater, NYC
A show about impotence, empathy, and trauma. A comedy show.
Written & performed by Julia Mounsey, Peter Mills Weiss and Brian Fiddyment
Produced by Aaron Profumo
„It burrows under the skin like a parasite. There has not been a day since I saw this show when I did not think about it.“ – Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times
[50/50] old school animation
2018
New York City Players, NYC
A diptych for two women. One woman outlines her philosophy of suffering. The other woman suffers.
Written by Julia Mounsey, Peter Mills Weiss, Sophie Weisskoff & Mo Fry Pasic
Performed by Julia Mounsey and Mo Fry Pasic
„The show, with its visceral ghastliness, is right on time.“ — Howard Fishman, The New Yorker
„[…] a rattlesnake-fast two-hander about female betrayal; give them 50 minutes and they’ll take a year off your life.“ — Helen Shaw, TimeOut NY