Ayi is a Colombian-American actor, filmmaker and writer of plays, screenplays and nonfiction from Miami, FL.
She is interested in stories about mental health, stories portraying Latin-Americans in unusual ways, and stories that represent an authentic, contemporary Miami. Her work often encompasses all three.
She holds a BFA in Drama with a minor in Creative Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Playwriting from The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
Ayi’s plays, including full lengths ELENA, Catholic All Girls School and Cris Leaves Queens, have been developed, workshopped and produced in New York, LA and regionally. A TV series adaptation of Catholic All Girls School was an official selection of The...
Ayi is a Colombian-American actor, filmmaker and writer of plays, screenplays and nonfiction from Miami, FL.
She is interested in stories about mental health, stories portraying Latin-Americans in unusual ways, and stories that represent an authentic, contemporary Miami. Her work often encompasses all three.
She holds a BFA in Drama with a minor in Creative Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Playwriting from The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
Ayi’s plays, including full lengths ELENA, Catholic All Girls School and Cris Leaves Queens, have been developed, workshopped and produced in New York, LA and regionally. A TV series adaptation of Catholic All Girls School was an official selection of The Gotham Institute’s Project Market Week and is currently in development with Gina Rodriguez’s I Can & I Will Productions.
Screenwriting credits include Shutterbird directed by Justin R. Ching (official selection of The Gotham Week’s Short to Features Section ’24) and The End of the Party directed by Kate Sullivan (2024 Tribeca Film Festival).
Original shorts directed by Ayi are Hey You Guys and the recently completed Birthday Girl.
Ayi’s feature-length script, Hey You Guys, is an official selection of and currently in development with New York Stage and Film’s 2024-2025 Filmmaker’s Workshop.
Ayi is a company member of IAMA Theatre Company as a playwright and actor, an alumna of IAMA’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA’s New West Playwrights group and the Latinx Playwrights Circle in New York City.
As an actor, Ayi has worked extensively across film, TV and theatre.
Ayi has had film, theater and music criticism published across various outlets and has been reporting on local ongoings for Miami New Times as a contributing writer.