Julie Brister is an actor and a long time teacher and director at the UCB Theatre.

As an actor she has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, MTV, FUSE, and she can be seen regularly as Lauralee Hickock on the Onion News Network show In the Know with Clifford Banes. Her short video "Book It!" was a finalist in Oxygen's Create-a-Series contest.

At UCB she played Crystal Conners in Showgirls! The Best Movie Ever Made! Ever! She is co-creator of Laid Up! and Put it in You! The Sex Ed Musical. Other UCB credits include Buy Beg Borrow or Steal, the improvised soap Chastity Cove, Van Gogh's Path, WUCB Action News, Filet of Film, Todd Barry's Icky and Beyond the Valley of the Switchblade Pussycats. Her directing credits at UCBTNY include Get Evolved, The Adventures of Lock and Kay, Cardboard Follies, Double X, Of Mice and Tara and Michael, and Crush.