Ayca Varlier

She is a Turkish/American actress/singer based in NYC. She graduated from Hartt School of Music and received her BFA in Musical Theatre. Then she wanted to get deeper training in acting which led her to get her MFA at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University and MXAT. She's been working in many long running TV shows, movies, plays and musical theatre projects as a celebrity major awards winner in Turkey since 2005. She is best known for "Gumus (2008), Sonbahar (2009), Behzat C.(2011), Kehribar (2017), Kalk Gidelim (2021). She received Best Leading Actress in Musical Awards in Afife Jale and Sadri Alisik Theatre Awards; the most prestigious award organizations in Turkey for her role, Roxy in "Leyla's House" adapted from the book of famous Turkish writer Zulfu Livaneli and staged by Tiyatro Kare between the years of 2010 - 2018 and for her role in "Phosphorus Cevriye" musical from 2015 to 2017. She got nominated 3 times for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her role "Nurcan" in "Let's Go" in Golden Butterfly Awards in 2017-2020. Besides her acting work, she continued her musical career as a singer and composer. She released an album titled "Elif" which included her own songs that combined pop, jazz, rock genres and acoustic music. She moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2021 and has been working as an actor/singer to this day.