Irishia Hubbard Romaine (she/her) is an American experimental filmmaker who works primarily with the embodied Black female experience. Her artistic practice is rooted in her cultural identity as a Black female, filmmaker, and movement practitioner from the South. Irishia is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and a 2024 Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM).

She has studied under screendance artists Katrina McPherson, Cara Hagan, Kelly Hargraves, Robin Gee, Ben Estabrook, Chad Michael Hall, and Charlotte Griffin; and is currently a board member of Dance Camera West. Irishia's films have achieved international acclaim, premiering at esteemed festivals including Cinevox, ADF Movie By Movers, Auro Apaar, Black Lives Rising, Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Dancecinema, Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival, and many more. Notably, her film, "Red Line," was selected for Dance Camera West's 2022 Mentorship Program and received Denton Black Film Festival's 2024 Virtual People's Choice Award. This captivating piece has been screened across diverse locations, including India, Spain, Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington D.C., North Carolina, Texas, Michigan, and the United Kingdom.

Irishia holds an MFA in Modern Dance and a Screendance certification from the University of Utah, where she received the Ellen Bromberg Dance Media Award, the College of Fine Arts Creative Research Award, and a University Teaching Assistantship (UTA). Additionally, she serves as a professional stager for the Donald McKayle Legacy and as Visibility Program Director for Dance Camera West.