Julianna Robinson was born in Reno, Nevada to working class parents who divorced when she was very young. Raised by her single mom who worked multiple jobs to make ends meet, Julianna was determined to be the first person in her family to attend college. She was accepted to UCSB and had intended to be a pre-med student but changed majors at the end of her freshman year when she was accepted to the coveted BFA acting program. In her first year at school, a casting director saw her in a play and cast her in an ill-fated Star Trek spinoff that, while very short lived, allowed her to blow her entire salary on studying Shakespeare in London for a semester. Upon graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, acting in many stage productions in LA’s theater scene and playing the lead in several award-winning independent feature films. A slow down in auditions sent her searching for different ways to tell stories and in 2019, she co-wrote and directed her first short film, “The Party”, which premiered at LA’s Screamfest. Falling in love with filmmaking, she quickly went on to direct seven more short films all of which have played at festivals all over the world and garnered awards. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, AWD (Alliance of Women Directors) and a company member at Theatre of Note.
