Ayeraye Akosua
EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)
Ayeraye Akosua (H., she/they) is a storyteller and artist across many realms, dedicated to healing through creation. As a ’22 Purchase Grad of Theater and Performance, she combines her film, screenwriting and Global Black Studies minors with her skills and love for makeup, visual arts, and dance towards Sankofa Medias: a production company founded with the mission of displaying and centering Queer Black Joy, Beauty, and Victories. As of January 1st 2025, Ayeraye’s feature length debut Love Thyselves is available for public viewing. With heavy sentiment in this story, Ayeraye is cast as seven leading roles, and credited as Writer, Director, Producer and MUA. Past theatrical roles include Why We Write(2025), Lotus and the Unlikely Crew (2022), and For Colored Women (2021). Writer/ Director credits include Justice (2022) and Ancestral Plane (2021), and other credits include Forever Evolving (2023) as CoDirector; Pink Drink Music Video by Khmeii (2023) and Sanctified Music Video by FkaProphet (2022) as Creative Director. She aspires to create beautiful and inspirational works of arts that enliven, empower and enlighten those within their community.