Alia Tarraf

Alia Tarraf is a sketch actress and stand-up comedienne who has been featured on MTV, in Glamour magazine and in commercials and industrial films where she has played every ethnicity known to man. She spoke at 2009's Diwan: A Forum for the Arts at the Arab American National Museum, which included a screening of Beirut Hills, an internet film parody of MTV's The Hills, which she co-wrote and starred in. Her third year in the NYAACF, Alia performed in the stage of version of Beirut Hills in 2008's NYAACF.

Raised in Minnesota and known as the "ethnic kid" at St. Olaf College, Alia has a B.A. in Film Studies and has studied at the Upright Citizen's Brigade, the Guthrie Theater, The Neighborhood Playhouse and The Pit. She has performed stand-up comedy at many of New York City's biggest comedy clubs and has performed with Nibras, an Arab American theater collective, in conjunction with the New York Theatre Workshop. She continues to make hilarious internet spoofs and has recently finished her first screenplay, Dairy Queen Rania.