Aliyah Curry is a queer Southern bred film and theatremaker focused on Black female sexuality and mental & reproductive health. Writing and directing for her are about vulnerability between self, actors, and story, never asking of any what she would not do herself. Her short films have received accolades at Savannah State Film Festival, Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, Georgia Film Festival, and Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project Film Festival. She executive produced Spooky Society, a proof of concept for a half-hour television series, in 2022, which was shown at Atlanta Horror, Spooky Empire Horror, and NYC Halloween film festivals in 2023, garnering a Next Generation Indie Film Awards nomination for best horror short. Experimenting more with her affinity for surrealism led to her short The True You, which is awaiting festival announcements. Her feature script Giny was a 2022 finalist in Screencraft’s Film Fund and developed in Stowe Story Labs 2023 Narrative Sidewalk Lab.
Her film work translates to her other passion of expression in theatre.
After studying dramatic writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design, she was accepted into Horizon Theatre Company's New South Young Playwrights Contest and Festival, which contributed to her being a Third Annual Dramatist Guild of America Young Playwright Award semi-finalist. Since then, she received the 2020-2022 Rosalind Ayres-Williams Scholarship at Working Title Playwrights and served on the Monday Night Development Workshop committee. Her first commission came with Pillow Talk, an auditory experience developed by and premiered on Alliance Theatre Anywhere, Spotlight Studio in 2021. Most recently, she was a 2023 member of the Exquisite Corpse Company's Spring Writer's Lab, culminating in a reading of a new one-act play at Culture Lab LIC. When not writing, she directs, stage manages, company manages, and collaborates with fellow theatermakers. She recently directed a concert reading of Turnover: A New Leaf by David Quang Pham at Theatre on the Verge's New Musicals Festival. Aliyah also makes photographs, poetry, and has dance parties with her nieces. You can find selected works and CV at www.theirdaughters.productions
She is currently based in Harlem, New York.