Jola Cora
Actress/Writer/Director/Producer
2026
Jola is elated to be producing her third play at the Hollywood Fringe, Franken’s A.I., where she will be playing the double role of Victoria Franken and Lord Byron, as well as writing and directing again. Franken’s A.I. is a very personal project, 10 years in the making, inspired by the famous year without a summer which Mary Shelley and Lord Byron spent in Geneva, Switzerland, in the villa Diodati, where the idea of Frankenstein was born, just a few minutes walk from where Jola herself was born…
2025
Jola is thrilled to be back at the Fringe after 6 years! And terribly excited to be back on stage, after a 2 year hiatus (during which her biggest achievements were to play Cher in Antoine Fuqua’s biopic on Michael Jackson and write another novel), with Birds of a Feather, one of three plays in A Haunting Revue!
2019
Jola is delighted to be back at the Fringe with her play Siren Call she wrote, is directing and co-staring in.
She made her Fringe debut in 2015 with the fairy tale inspired The House by The Swamp, which she is now turning into an illustrated book with original paintings by Sylwia Ewa Paszko (the Polish artist also drew the poster for Siren Call!).
Jola was born in Geneva to a Swiss Italian father and Polish mother and was raised between Geneva and Warsaw. At 15 she made her stage debut in Warsaw at Teatr Nowy. She oscillates between the stage and film.
Her feature film The Night, a magical realist tale about a love triangle and a night in Warsaw, is available on VOD (https://www.amazon.com/Night-Jola-Cora/dp/B01F689A8S ).
Almost five years ago, she moved from Warsaw to Los Angeles and Siren Call is partly inspired by what she witnessed in the city of angeles as an actress trying to survive in a classist society.
www.jolacora.com
