Julie-Anne Liechty

Julie-Anne Liechty has done Shakespeare with Al Pacino, been directed by Danny Glover, co-starred with Mark Pellegrino and worked with many others including, the legendary American Playwrights Lanford Wilson (Talley’s Folly) and Paul Zindel (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), actor Jeff Goldblum, director Rob Reiner, Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams), Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan), Robby Benson (Ice Castles), Carl Lumbly (Alias), Ben Barns (Prince Caspian), Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix), Jason Behr (Roswell), Candace Cameron Bure (Full House), and Nick Robinson (Jurassic World).

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Utah, she briefly attended BYU as a Vocal Performance Major before transferring to the Theater School at DePaul University in Chicago where she received her BFA in Acting. Next it was on to New York City where she worked in theatre and film, as well as continued studying at various schools such as Circle in the Square and the Juilliard School (for Alexander Technique).

After a brief stint back in Salt Lake she made the move to Los Angeles where she worked mainly in film and television. She also started writing both screenplays and novels, studying at UCLA’s Writers Program. While in LA, she took acting classes at Playhouse West with Jeff Goldblum and Mark Pellegrino.

In 2012 life circumstances brought her back to Salt Lake where she has been working as an actress, writer and producer, and started her own acting school, Actors In Action Conservatory. In 2019 she won Outstanding Original script at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival for her play Amber:Alert which deals with teen-suicide and was produced by Scaffold Theatre. Most recently she was seen in the same theatre company’s all-female production of Macbeth in which she played the title role.