Julian Martinez is an actor in Chicago, Ill. having moved here from California in September 2002. While in California he attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts @ Allan Hancock College, an AEA theater with an attached 2-year acting conservatory. He furthered his studies at Columbia College Chicago in order to complete his BFA in acting. While attending Columbia Julian’s performances included Iago in Othello, John Landis in Fifth of July, and an ensemble member in The Brown Sheep Project, a collaboration between Columbia and La Postra Nostra, a performance art group lead by Guillermo Gomez-Peña based in San Francisco. Since graduation in 2005 Julian has worked with Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Tina Landau in their production of Cherry Orchard, Duchess of Malfi at Writer’s Theater directed by Michael Halberstam, the mainstage ensemble @ Second City, About Face Theater Company, The Art Institute of Chicago, Lookingglass Theatre Company and many non-union theaters in the Chicagoland area including Silk Road Theatre Project, City Lit Theater Company, Bohemian Theater Company, Teatro Luna, and Theatre Mir. Julian is registered with Lily’s Talent Agency and is also pursuing a commercial and film career; he was most recently seen in a commercial for the new Illinois Lottery seasonal campaign. In the summer of 2005 Julian attended the School at Steppenwolf, a 10-week training course in Viewpoints, Improvisation, Meisner, and professional survival taught by Steppenwolf ensemble members such as K. Todd Freeman, Rick Snyder, Amy Morton, Rondi Reed, Jeff Perry and Marianne Mayberry, as well as Sheldon Patinkin. With a new found interest in improvisation, Julian attended the Second City Conservatory from winter 2006 to summer 2008. In summer 2009 Julian founded MustacheMeetFace Productions and along with collaborators currently produces Comanche, a webisode series featured on www.ComancheTheSeries.com. Julian was recently married in September 2007. In addition to acting he enjoys painting and restoring Vespa scooters (only during the summer time).