Juliana Freude

Education: B.A University of Toledo 2018, M.F.A Saint Mary's College of California 2020

 

Juliana Freude is a native of Akron, Ohio, where she trained at The University of Akron Dance Institute before beginning her professional career at age seventeen with Ohio Ballet. She went on to perform with Nashville Ballet, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Connecticut Ballet, Ohio Dance Theatre, and NEOS Dance Theatre. Her repertoire includes classical and contemporary works by choreographers including Jill Eathorne Bahr, Joseph Locarro, Darrell Moultrie, Penny Saunders, and Robert Wesner, as well as works from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Following her retirement from professional performance in 2020, Juliana earned an MFA in Creative Practice: Dance, Design, and Production from Saint Mary’s College of California and transitioned into higher education. She previously served as an Assistant Lecturer in Dance at the University of Wyoming and as a Lecturer in Dance at Georgia College & State University, where she taught, choreographed, and developed dance curriculum. She has since returned to the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Lecturer in Dance and serves as choreographer and director for the 2026 production of The Nutcracker.