Alex Barlas

Alex Barlas is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, and producer whose work bridges stage, screen, and new theatrical forms. He was recently nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his portrayal of John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest at Antaeus Theatre Company, and received a Stage Scene Award for Most Outstanding Performance in Multiple Productions. A graduate of CalArts with an MFA in Acting, Barlas has trained under Deborah Aquila in her Master Scene Study program and has appeared in productions at South Coast Repertory (A Christmas Carol), Antaeus Theatre Company (The Glass Menagerie, The Importance of Being Earnest), Odyssey Theatre (Ghost), and internationally at the Nuit Blanche Art Festival in Paris with his one-man show The Mirror Is You. He also collaborated with Edgar Arceneaux on Boney Manilli, which premiered at REDCAT/Walt Disney Concert Hall and later at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. As a writer, Barlas is the recipient of The Reef Residency Award, where he developed his original play Take Me Home, a two-act drama set in Appalachia blending memory, magical realism, and family history. He is also a 2025 graduate of Lena Waithe's HillmanGrad Fellowship program, where he further developed his voice as an actor. His projects explore themes of identity, survival, and belonging, drawing on his upbringing in southern West Virginia and his experience as an adoptee of mixed heritage.