Julianna Bloodgood is an actress, movement artist, vocalist, teacher and director whose work includes anthropological performance research. She has traveled extensively in search of different cultural perspectives on the body, voice and the ritual of performance. She was an actress in the award-winning and critically acclaimed Polish theatre company Song of the Goat Theatre from 2009-2018.

In Poland Julianna was also a founding member of the pedagogical and performance research company Odra Ensemble. She was a resident artist with New York based Theater MITU, and is currently collaborating with Slovakian theatre company Honey and Dust.

In 2019, Julianna was awarded a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture for her artistic research and was one of ten European independent theatre makers chosen to participate in Creative Europe’s Make A Move project. Julianna is the co-founder of The Dadaab Theater Project, a youth based theater project in Dadaab, Kenya, formerly the world’s largest refugee camp and is a founding member and co-artistic director of The Great Globe Foundation, a non-profit organization seeking to inspire and empower the individual voice and to help build bridges between people and communities.

Julianna graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University and holds an MA in Acting, a BFA in Dramatic Performance from the College Conservatory of Music, Department of Acting, University of Cincinnati. She is also a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, California. Julianna regularly teaches workshops and masterclasses internationally.