Chiara Motley is a producer and actress who splits her time between Los Angeles, and Seattle. She has produced and collaborated on a number of projects, including Violet Machine (The Casualty Process’s first US music video), And, Apart (an immersive transmedia film project about grief in the Pacific Northwest), and a series of short video portraits of young spoken word poets for Urban Word NYC. 

All Souls, a web series which she produced and starred in opposite Michael Potts, won the Gold Award for a Digital Series at DC Webfest in 2020 and the audience award at FLICKFAIR On Demand in 2021. Chiara also co-produced the 2020 web series The Corps, which screened at the American Black Film Festival and Urbanworld 2021.

Chiara also produces and cohosts the podcast Good Pain which explores the world of BDSM, wades into important conversations about kinky sex, power dynamics, and the patriarchy.

Chiara received her B.A. in drama from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Evelyn M. Draper Award for performance, and her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, CO.  She has performed on stages across the country including ACT, Seattle Repertory Theatre, DC Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage and more.

Chiara believes that everyone has a story to tell. She is creative, silly, empathetic, loves to community build, and lives to create rich and complicated worlds on film. She is a founding member of Some Folks Productions.