Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation. She is currently a NEFA National Dance Project Grantee for her project “Put Away the Fire, Dear” currently on tour and the recipient of the Ellis Beauregard Contemporary Dance Award. She has been commissioned by Limon Dance Company, ODC Theater, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Blacklight Summit, Harlem Stage and beyond. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and collaborations with musicians and other artists. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, among receiving support from Watermill Center for the Arts, Armstrong Now, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La Mama Theater, and others. She is excited to create more and continue to be a part of radical movements of freedom and humanity.