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Alida is an award-winning actor, producer, spaceshaper, and published poet originally from Brooklyn.
She has performed or developed work in part with the 92Y, Acme Brooklyn, American Irish Historical Society, Beth Morrison Projects, Broadway Bound Festival, Dixon Place, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Invulnerable Nothings (Barn Lab + Mercury Store), MoMA PS1, NYPL, New Ohio (Ice Factory), New York Deaf Theatre, Queens Museum, SoHo Playhouse (Fringe Festival), and The Muse Brooklyn.
As an activist, Alida organized SUMMER OF RAGE – a sold-out performance slam and fundraising event for The National Network of Abortion Funds and was part of the foundational team at AllInOne for rebuilding THe Church: an artist coworking and community center opening in Flatbush.
Additionally, she received a NY Web Festival Producers Award for her work on The Rehearsal written/directed by indie darling, Jaclyn Bethany. The pilot took home a Daytime Emmy for Tina Benko’s performance, including seven Indie Series Award nominations. Her New York State Pavilion entry took home the Queens Borough award and was subsequently featured in the Wall Street Journal and exhibited at the Queens Museum. Her poetry was most recently featured as part of the UN’s World's Ocean Day with Alfaaz Collective.
Ongoing projects include Matthew Gasda’s One Winged Dove.
Alida is a graduate from Marymount Manhattan College and is repped by KMR.