Chiara Motley is an award-winning actress and producer based in Los Angeles and Seattle. Most recently, she co-produced The Decision, an official selection at the Big Apple Film Festival 2024. She co-created, produced, and starred opposite Michael Potts in All Souls, a web series which won the Gold Award for a Digital Series at DC Webfest in 2020 and the audience award at FLICKFAIR in 2021. Chiara also co-produced the 2020 web series The Corps, which screened at the American Black Film Festival and Urbanworld 2021. She has created a number of other projects, including music videos, immersive transmedia film projects, and video portraits of spoken word poets for Urban Word NYC. 

Currently, Chiara is a producer for two feature films Envie (filming in Charleston, SC in 2025) and A Woman Abroad (currently in pre-production). Her original pilot, Paradise Lanes, was workshopped with Sundance Labs in 2022. In addition to producing and writing, Ms. Motley continues to be in demand as a performer in film and stage. Chiara received her B.A. in drama from Stanford University where she won the Evelyn M. Draper Prize 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. She is a founding member of Some Folks Productions.