Julia Fowler(I)

South Carolina native Julia Fowler is an actor, writer, producer, and the creator of Southern Women Channel - a YouTube channel with over 30 million views. Julia's 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. Julia wrote on the southern Netflix comedy Country Comfort, wrote the feature Tenacious, a faith based true story about a southern football coach and adapted the acclaimed novel Whistling Past the Graveyard, into a feature film.

Julia also created and executive produced Growing Up Broadway - an unscripted pilot for E! which followed the lives of of kids who perform in Broadway shows. She executive produced and acted in the indie TV pilot Shalom Y'all, written by Caryn Lucas, which was later developed by Warner Brothers under Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed's production shingle Rare Bird Productions. Julia has also written and developed TV & Film projects with New Line Cinema, Will Packer Productions, and Reese Witherspoon.

Julia graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a BA in theater and dance. Her first love was dance and musical theater. She's appeared in Broadway shows, National Broadway tours and at the iconic Hollywood Bowl.

Julia is married to television producer Sam Sokolow and resides in South Carolina. Visit her at: southernwomenchannel.