Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. Her commissions include Limon Dance Company, Gibney, Armstrong Now!, Danspace, Little Island, Harlem Stage, BlackLight Summit and beyond. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and music collaborations. She recently shared “Choir” (Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition), “To Dream A Lifetime” (BlackLight), Roster with Melanie Charles, “MIXTAPES” with Alex MacKinnon and site-specific Broken Record (Little Island) with Brandon Coleman, and “Martyr’s Fiction” film in edit. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, among receiving support from Works & Process, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La Mama Theater, and others. She received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Bessie Awards for December 8th and NYLA’s “Motherboard Suite”, New York Times Top 2021 Dance Performances “Roster” and “Breakout Star.” She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. She premiered reimagined archival work for Limon at Joyce Theater (2024). Recently she is touring “Put Away the Fire, dear” supported by NEFA National Dance Project. She received Watermill Center’s Baroness Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship and the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Choreographer Award (2023).