The Exonerated was a powerful, moving and uplifting piece of verbatim theatre which told the stories of people who had been exonerated from death row.

All the text came directly from interviews with exonerees, legal documents and letters. It evoked the experience of being wrongfully convicted, injustices within the legal justice systerm, what it was like living on death row and the attempt to rebuild a life after being released. The play encouraged major debate about the issue of capital punishment and was also inspirational in how it revealed how strong the human spirit can be.

The production at Riverside Studios employed a rotating cast and Julia joined the ensemble in May 2006, playing the wives of two of the exonerated.