Julia Sirna-Frest is a performer, musician, director and teaching artist. She is a founding member of the Obie award winning theater company Half Straddle, co-fronts Doll Parts, Brooklyn's premiere Dolly Parton cover band and is one half of the indie-electro-folk duo Permanent Moves. She has developed work and performed at The Kitchen, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Incubator, WP Theater, Hartford Stage, St. Ann's Warehouse, The Brooklyn Museum, La MaMa ETC, Abrons Art Center, The New Museum, Mass MoCA, The Wild Project, PS 122, Joe's Pub, The New Victory Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Soho Rep, New Dramatists and JACK. With Half Straddle she has toured to France, Croatia, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts with Seagull (thinking of you), In the Pony Palace/Football and Ghost Rings. Member of the 2022-2024 WP Lab and current New Georges Jam Cohort, Mercury Store Directors Lab 2024-2025
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Very excited to be directing Zoë Geltman’s Play in May 2025 at THE BRICK!
A(U)NTS! had a developmental workshop with The Hearth Theater Company in November 2023, with a public reading at 59E59. Performed by Zoë Geltman, Megan Hill, and Jehan Young.
IL BUNKERINI by Sam Bell
directed by Iris McCloughan
with Tina Benko, Ugo Chukwu, Tony Jenkins and Emma Kikue
Streaming Everywhere!