Julian Casey was born 1968, in Dublin, Ireland. He spent the first 6 years of his life there until his parents moved to Zambia. That was followed by another move to England and then Qatar. He attended Castleknock College in Dublin from 1980-86. He is a graduate of the theatre program at Concordia University, Montréal Québec. He is still based in Montréal, married, and has two boys.