Keara Barnes

Keara Barnes is an award-winning actor/writer/producer and emerging director from Vancouver, B.C. She holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. Over the past seven years as a professional performer, she has amassed 50+ performing credits in both film and theatre, as well as lent her voice to over a dozen voiceover projects. Keara is also the Artistic Director of Standing Room Only Theatre, through which she has created and performed two one-woman shows, Almost a Stepmom & TravelTheatrics, which have both toured across Western Canada for four years to critical acclaim, sold-out runs, and media coverage by Global TV, CBC and The Vancouver Sun. Since 2015, the company has produced six theatrical productions including the sold-out run of The Weir in the 2015 Celticfest Vancouver. As a filmmaker, Keara is the writer/producer of four short films. Livefeed won "Scariest Film" at the 2019 Blood n Guts Festival. A Midwinter Nightmare (which she also starred in) is an eight-time award-winner including "Best Romantic Comedy" at the 2021 Oregon Short Film Festival and for which Keara was nominated for "Best Actress" at the 2021 Chilliwack Independent Film Festival and won "Best Actress" at the Montreal Independent Film Festival. Her most recent film, The Stepmom, which she wrote, co-directed, executive produced and acted in, was adapted for the screen from her one-woman theatrical show and is set to tour the film festival circuit in 2022. Keara also is the Director of Sponsorship at the Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival, an avid traveler (having been to 32 countries), and a published freelance writer.