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Julia Sirna-Frest

Julia Sirna-Frest is a New York City based performer, director and musician. She is a founding

member of the Obie-award-winning Half Straddle and has toured with them throughout the US

and Europe. Music projects include indie-folk-rock duo Permanent Moves (Debut Album Don't

Forget Us: A Chekhovian Song Cycle-streaming everywhere!) and co-front woman of Doll Parts,

Brooklyn’s premiere Dolly Parton cover band. Favorite performance credits include Lunch

Bunch (Playco, Clubbed Thumb); [Porto] (WP Theater, The Bushwick Starr); Seder (Hartford

Stage); A Tunnel Year (The Chocolate Factory); The Offending Gesture (Mac Wellman);

Comfort Dogs: Live from the Pink House (JACK). She has directed the majority of Zoë

Geltman’s work, including A(U)NTS! (The Brick); PUFFY HAIR (Vancouver Fringe, The Tank)

and SEA FRAUD (The Brick). She has developed work and performed at The Kitchen,

Target Margin Theater, 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. She is an alum of the 2022-2024 WP Lab, 2025

Director’s Lab at Mercury Store and an affiliated artist with New Georges.

www.juliasirnafrest.co