Since returning from Edinburgh in August, Julian has been engaged in a number of short films and a variety of other projects:

Ted Matthews in Lost and Found written and directed by Valeria Appel, is a short film in which Julian was obliged to play the violin in Portobello Road on a busy Saturday.  A crowd gathered to watch this spectacle, a tuxedo dressed man, quite incapable of playing the violin, nevertheless doing so with great intensity to ludicrous effect.

Then Julian played Santa Claus in Born Yesterday directed by Kate Golledge.  Santa, accused of stealing mince pies and brandy, gets the good cop bad cop treatment from two tough policemen, played by ten year old boys.  And what boys!  Felix Soper and Connor Panayl, one fresh from Casualty, the other from Holby City.  This was a fun shoot.  Although this was Kate’s first film as a director, she is a very experienced theatre director and it showed, particularly in her assured handling of the two talented boys.  See www.bornyesterday.tillyvision.co.uk

In The Bridge, written and directed by Michael Mitchell and produced by Sabrina Bokhari, Julian played a mystery man.  He drives an old car through the streets of London at night, arrives at a bridge, where he throws a bin bag filled with…. something into the river.  Julian is the only actor in the film unless you include an animated crow.

Meanwhile Julian engaged with Weaver Hughes Writers Ensemble in the development of a play about a deserted village.  The latest version of this piece, HOME, written by Sian Owen following discussions and improvisations by the cast of three, Julian, Felicity Davidson and Judith Quinn and direction by James Hammond, was presented at Theatre 503 on December 1st to a full house of writers, actors and directors who showed every sign of interest and clapped at the end.

In MPD – Let It Bleed, a 60 minute TV Pilot, Julian played the straight talking father figure to the hero/villain played by the brilliant Sean Knopp.  This fast paced and witty thriller was written by Tor Mian and directed by Darren Gordon.

Narrative Identity is an Art Installation project devised by the photographer Lorenzo Durantini.  Each photograph captures a moment charged with ambiguity, a kind of scenario to be created in the mind of the viewer.  Julian played The Winner, a loser if ever there was one, whose nail scratches a scratch card against a wall in the shadow of a tree.

Julian played the male lead role of Dr Whale in Stitchgirl, which is one third of a three part portmanteau feature film called Bordello Death Tales.  Stitchgirl, written and directed by Alan Ronald is a hommage to James Whale and in particular his 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein.  It’s a Gothic Horror film, starring Natalie Milner and Eleanor James alongside Julian.  Natalie is the proprietor of the brothel, who makes Stitchgirl, played by Eleanor, to Dr Whale’s precise specification, from the body parts of whores stored in the basement for that very purpose.  This delightfully daft film is as funny as it is frightening.  Maybe it will go straight to DVD but, who knows?  It may become a cult classic.

Since September, Julian has been working with Peter Brown of Promising Productions www.promisingproductions.co.uk on a radio version of The Red Man, the short play Julian wrote and performed at the Kuiperfest in Aragon and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  The final sound mix will take place in January.

In December Julian began rehearsals of The Mother “An unssavory play in two acts and an epilogue” by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz.  This 1928 piece is famous in Poland, a seminal avant garde work in which Julian plays the role of Apollinaire Stonybroke, impoverished and unpleasant father of the lovely Sofia.  This will play at Camden Peoples Theatre January 13 to 30th.