ALEX VARA
Alex Vara is an actor, producer, writer, and public speaking teacher.
Alex is currently producing Isabel Hagen’s upcoming film ON A STRING. She also produced ONLY THE GOOD SURVIVE starring Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs), and Lachlan Watson (Sabrina), which premiered at SXSW in 2023.
Alex studies acting at HB Studio in the West Village and has an MFA in fiction and nonfiction from The New School. She hosts the monthly reading series NO REQUIRED READING at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg and is an ex bread baker and farm hand.
Born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Mill Valley, she lives in Manhattan.
past SHOWS
“Orchid or Kid” is about a couple in a kitchen.
A pregnant wife, DAPHNE, has an unsettling confession to make to GAVIN, an over-achieving, morally superior husband with a savior complex. He attempts to get to the bottom of his wife’s mysterious obsession with keeping a dying orchid alive, when the doorbell rings, turning their marriage upside down, resulting in a physical confrontation involving fertilizer, soil and a bag of small rocks.
Starring Alex Vara & Jordan Galland.
Sunday: 1/29 @ 8:00pm
Sunday: 2/5 @ 2:00pm
Thursday: 2/9 @ 6:30 pm
Sunday: 2/12 @ 5:00 pm
Chain Theater
Winter One Act Festival
312 W 36th St. 4th floor
New York, NY 10018
Tickets are $15 in advance online and $18 at the door. Discount code: ORCHID.
“ONE-EIGHTY” follows a couple confronting disappointments as they plan their daughter’s first birthday. When Becky discovers her husband’s obsession with old friends who have become their opposites, she sees herself fit their pattern. Has she done a one-eighty? Grappling with repressed feelings they decide to undo the corrosive forces that their wedding unleashed, to protect their child from them.
Starring Alex Vara & Jordan Galland.
Thursday: 6/1 @ 9:00pm
Saturday: 6/3 @ 12:00 pm
Sunday: 6/4 @ 8:30 pm
The Latea Theater
New York Theater Festival
107 Suffolk St
New York, NY 10002