South Carolina native, Julia Fowler, is a writer/director/actor and author and a proud member of WGA, SAG/AFTRA and AEA. She is also the creator of Southern Women Channel, a YouTube channel with over 32 million views and over 800K followers across social media platforms. Her videos have gone viral, been written about in newspapers throughout the South, and were featured on The Today Show. Julia’s books, Talk Southern to Me (2018) and Embrace Your Southern, Sugar (2020) both released by Gibbs Smith Publishing, are collections of comedic essays and southernisms that have been endorsed by celebrated southerners such as Dolly Parton, Delta Burke, and Andie MacDowell.
Most recently, Julia wrote, directed and acted in the indie feature film, Student Film: The Movie, in association with the SC Film Commission, BrandCinema, and Clemson University’s World Cinema Program. Julia also wrote on the Netflix comedy, Country Comfort, adapted the celebrated novel, Whistling Past the Graveyard, into a screenplay and also adapted the autobiography Tenacious into a faith-based screenplay. As an actor, Julia recently acted in the indie feature The High Note, and also in the indie pilot The Ex-Wives of Beverly Hills, which won Best Episodic and the Audience Award for Best Short at the 2026 IFS/L.A. Film Festival.
Julia also created and executive produced Growing Up Broadway, an unscripted pilot for E! and executive produced and acted in the indie TV pilot Shalom Y’all, which was later developed by Warner Brothers. Julia has also developed projects with New Line Cinema, Will Packer Media, and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard.
Julia’s theater credits include the original cast of Broadway’s Tony Award winning revival of Annie Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat. In the National Tour of Annie Get Your Gun, Julia played the conniving “Dolly Tate” and understudied the role of “Annie Oakley.” She played “Mrs. Potiphar” in the National Tour of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, opposite Donny Osmond. She was also in the Broadway workshop of Tommy Tune’s Easter Parade, and in the cast of the Hollywood Bowl’s 2012 production of The Producers directed by Tony award winning, director/choreographer, Susan Stroman.
Some of Julia’s favorite Film & TV acting credits include: Modern Family, The Closer, Vegas, Ugly Betty, Titus, the ABC pilot, Hollis & Rae, written & directed by Callie Khouri and the indie feature, Tom’s Nu Heaven, written & directed by Dale Launer. Fun fact, she was also the “Oscar Girl” and gave out the Oscars at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
Julia was born and raised in Gaffney, South Carolina. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of South Carolina with a BA in Theatre and Dance and is a proud sister of Chi Omega sorority. While in college, Julia, with the help of her parents, opened a dance studio in Gaffney, SC offering classes in Tap, Jazz, Ballet and Clogging. After seventeen years of serving as artistic director and building award winning dance teams, Julia sold her dance studio and is thrilled that her hometown community still has a terrific studio, The Southern Dance Academy, in which to study her first love…dance.
In addition to show business, Julia is a fully certified apparatus Pilates Instructor with 20 years of experience. Julia’s an avid supporter of Meals on Wheels, Feeding America and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Julia is incredibly grateful for the talented Southern Women who appear in her videos and sincerely appreciates the tremendous support and enthusiasm shown by the dedicated fans of the Southern Women Channel. Julia currently resides in Greenville, SC with her husband, TV & Film producer, and Clemson film professor, Sam Sokolow.
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