LESLIE SAINT-JULIEN

Leslie Saint-Julien is an American actress, author, poet, dancer and screenwriter. She has published several books of poetry, one of which is a children’s series that she continues to write called Brooklyn Stew. Saint-Julien is known for her theater performances, in the portrayals of African American women in Black history, as Phillis Wheatley, Arnetta Beverly and Zora Neal Hurston with the Northern Arundel Cultural Preservation Society, Inc. She has also performed in several other theatrical performances to include ballet dance throughout New York City, Baltimore, and Washington, DC with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Unified Voices of Johns Hopkins and Legendary Studio Shows Universal.  Saint-Julien debuted in her first screenplay in the 2018 HitHouse Entertainment Group movie premiere of Sunny. It is an American crime drama written by Usman “Taydon” Taiwo and directed by Malachi E. Robinson, where she portrays the wife of a detective. In the 2018 season five premiere of STARZ Network television series Power, Saint-Julien portrays a grieving parent in two season episodes directed by Solvan Naim and Tina Mabry.

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Saint-Julien has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral and Social Science from the University of Maryland. She has trained professionally in New York City in classical ballet, tap and jazz with Francine Roland-King, a former June Taylor Dancer on The Jackie Gleason Show and dance critic with the London Contemporary Dance Theater.  At the Bennet Music School is where Saint-Julien was trained in classical piano. In 2013, she enrolled at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC where she studied and learned acting fundamentals, theater craft and playwriting.  This training helped to land her roles in plays throughout Baltimore under the directorship of Dr.’s Vivian Gist Spencer and Gregory Wm. Branch, learning and studying August Wilson and Broadway theater styles using the Meisner technique.

Coming to the stage in 2019, Michel is rehearsing now to perform in I Cried The Blues, a 1945 Blues musical Starring Keke Wyatt, written by Dennis Williams and directed by Brandon Lee. Born and raised in the East Flatbush town of Brooklyn to Haitian parents during the seventies, eighties and nineties, Saint-Julien is very in touch with her Caribbean and urban culture. Growing up, she lived with both of her parents, her older sister and with her maternal Dominican grandmother. Her grandmother was an evangelist and very devout Christian who taught Saint-Julien how to pray and study the Bible daily in both French and Spanish. This experience ignited a light inside of her that she would later discover in her adult life to be her compass.  

Today, Saint-Julien is actively working in various film projects and is on the path to doing more screen work including the debut of her written screenplay Last, But Not Least. Ultimately, Saint-Julien wants to produce, direct and own her own television network, broadcasting educational programs for children of color. Her children’s book series Brooklyn Stew will be transformed into her first television network program. Until then, she wants to land a career as a reoccurring actress in a national television drama series. She is also working on recording a spoken word poetry album. Saint-Julien believes that with God, anything is possible and looks forward to seeing her next film project honored at the Academy Awards!