Julian has performed in New York at the Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for the New City, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, among others.Regional credits include: The Piano Lesson (Arden Theatre), No Exit (Imago Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Milwaukee Shakespeare), and Othello (Texas Globe).
Julian has also appeared in numerous television programs and commercials. He was featured in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards commercial, and appears regularly in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, produced by Martin Scorcese.
Julian is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, the Rybinsk Theatre in St. Petersburg, and attended Radford University in Virginia. He is a founding member of Hipgnosis Theatre Company and a Resident Creative Artist for Artel Theatre Company in L.A.
In addition to acting, Julian is a painter whose artwork has been exhibited at Monkdogz Gallery in Chelsea, Culturefix, Under Minerva, and many others. Julian received the Bruce J. and Sharon Goodman Grant for his painting “Compassion” at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for their black artist retrospective.