Julie's recent New York acting credits include Sky Steele in WOW Cafe Theatre's "I May Never Go Home," Polyxena in Messenger Theatre Company's "The Golden Apple," and a hopefully never-ending cameo career in "Butch McCloud." Some of her favorite acting credits include Karen in Austin Pendleton's "The Children's Hour," Miranda and Trinculo in Shakespeare East's "The Tempest" and Lee in "True West." She has studied with Tina Packer at Shakespeare and Company, and she graduated from Smith College where she was awarded the Yvonne Sarah Bernhardt Buerger Award for most notable contribution to the Theatre Department, the Denton Snyder Acting Prize and the Samuel A. Elliot, Jr./ Julia Heflin Award for distinguished directing of the mainstage production of "The House of Bernarda Alba." Other directing credits include "The Kathy and Mo Show," "Candy and Shelley Go to the Desert," and "The Mystery School."
Johanna's New York productions include: "God's Comic" at La MaMa, E.T.C; "Butch McCloud, Episode III" and "I May Never Go Home" at the WOW Cafe Theatre; and "Lullaby, or Everybody Does It," with the Compound Eye. Johanna is a graduate of Smith College, where she studied with John Hellweg, Paul Zimet, Jane Bryden, and the incomparable Len Berkman. Productions at Smith include: "How I Learned to Drive" (Female Greek Chorus); "The Seagull" (Nina); and "At My Mother's Table," by Adrien-Alice Hansel. Productions with New Directions Theatre in Northampton include: "Completely Dead," by Len Berkman; "The Dangers of Smoking Tobacco;" "Blind Date" and "Cooking in the Dark with Debbie," both by S. Falon Woll. Johanna studied with Mark Wing-Davey and Edward Woodall at the British American Drama Acadamy (BADA); and under Gustavo Halley at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. She also studied with Dan Chumley and Ed Holmes at the San Francisco Mime Troupe, where she directed and acted in a short political melodrama entitled "I'll Never Be Pregnant Again!"
