Faculty Member
Julie joined the Theatre Faculty at UVU in 2020, after 5 years at Nebraska Wesleyan University where she ran the BFA musical theatre program. Prior to that she was the Theatre Program Director at Salt Lake Community College. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and has been appearing in plays, musicals, commercials, film, and voice over for over 20 years. She is a certified Associate Faculty member for The Expressive Actor, and has also trained with Jeanie LoVetri in Somatic Voicework. She currently serves as the Acting for the Camera Specialist in the BFA Acting program here at UVU.
Major: Theatre Performance
Major: Theatre Studies
Acting for Film, Fall 2025
Acting for Film, Fall 2025
Acting I, Fall 2025
Acting I FF, Summer 2025
Acting III, Spring 2025
Acting III, Spring 2025
Film Acting II, Spring 2025
Singing Technique for Actors I - BFA, Spring 2025
Singing Techniques for Actors II-BFA, Spring 2025
Voiceover Acting, Spring 2025
Studio Center is a production company in Norfolk Virginia that serves the voice over needs of various companies and projects all over the country. At the beginning of each month, they update their "Top Ten" list, in the categories of Kids, Men and Women. Julie first landed on this list in the summer of 2024 and has remained there almost every month since. It's a great accomplishment to be recognized as one of the top 10 female voice out of hundreds of female voice artists on their roster.
Professor Heaton is the recipient of a Flexible Teaching Award, Honorable Mention for her online, asynchronous Acting I class. The purpose of the new design was to make the course materials more engaging and user friendly given that Acting is such a challenging topic to teach in an asynchronous format. Her course was reviewed by several curriculum and online teaching specialists here at UVU and given this distinction for her work.
