Julia Ashworth

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Julia Ashworth has been working with young people as a theatre educator and director for over a decade. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Education from Brigham Young University in 1996; upon graduation she began working as the performing arts department coordinator and theatre teacher at American Fork High School. In 2000 she relocated to New York City to study at New York University, where she received her Master of Arts in Educational Theatre from NYU’s Steinhart School of Education.

While at NYU, Ashworth enjoyed working both as a graduate assistant for the Program in Educational Theatre and as the coordinator of professional activities at the historic off-Broadway Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village — where she also had the opportunity to produce and direct in their theatre for young audiences program. Over the next several years she worked as a teaching artist and director in various New York City public schools and in-house theatre education programs, in, near, around, and most notably with The Young Women’s Leadership School, on Broadway. Concurrently she worked in Lincoln Center with New York State Council on the Arts where she facilitated professional development for artists and educators. While in New York she also enjoyed acting as the performing arts program director for The Children’s Aid Society’s after-school programming.

Since returning to Utah she is thrilled to be teaching Theatre Education at BYU, and excited to create original theatre programs and productions with local public schools. Ashworth hopes to one day run her own Educational Theatre organization.