The Deliverance (Formerly Mother Earth Day) Selected for 2021 PlayGround Zoom Festival
Daysha’s newest full-length play, The Deliverance, which was also selected and developed under PlayGround-LA’s New Play Commission was selected for PlayGround’s 2021 Zoom Festival reading…
Waiting For Umoja Selected for Best of PlayGround-LA Season 9 Gala
Daysha’s newest 10-min play, Waiting For Umoja, which was written as part of PlayGround-LA’s Writer’s Pool for 2020-2021, was selected as one of the top 6 plays for season 9 of PlayGround-LA’s Monday Night Reading Series…
The Beds We Make Selected For Plays For Us Reading Series
Daysha’s newest 10-min play, The Beds We Make, was selected for the 12th edition of Plays For Us, a play reading series to showcase stories about women over the age of 40…
Daysha Presents Guest Lecture For Concord Academy MLK Day Celebration 2021
Daysha was invited back to Concord Academy virtually on January 27th to be a featured speaker for their yearly MLK Day celebration...
Waiting For Umoja Selected For People’s Choice Award at PlayGround-LA’s Monday Night Reading Series
The patrons of PlayGround-LA have spoken… and this month, Daysha’s newest 10-min Play, Waiting For Umoja, was selected as the favorite of the evening…
The Write Choice Staged Reading Premieres In Collaboration With New York Theatre Workshop
The Write Choice, Daysha’s newest full-length play, was workshopped for 4 weeks in collaboration with the award-winning New York Theatre Workshop as part of UCLA’s Department of Theatre 2020 New Play Festival…
Waiting For Umoja Selected For PlayGround-LA’s Monday Night Reading Series December
After finishing up desert on Christmas night 2020, a young black liberal feminist tries to enlist her opinionated, conflicted family in celebrating Kwanzaa with her for the first time. The problem? Black people don’t celebrate kwanzaa…
The Beds We Make Selected For People’s Choice Award at PlayGround-LA’s Monday Night Reading Series
The patrons of PlayGround-LA have spoken… and this month, Daysha’s newest 10-min Play, The Beds We Make, was selected as the favorite of the evening…
The Beds We Make Selected For PlayGround-LA Monday Night Reading Series October
In a world where Trump is re-elected as president, the Supreme Court becomes conservative leaning, and Roe v. Wade is swiftly overturned, a competitive Christian mother and her mouthy, sarcastic daughter struggle with how to face the messy beds they have made after a long-kept secret is finally brought to light…
Daysha Receives 2020 New Play Commission With PlayGround-LA
Daysha has won the 2020 New Play Commission with PlayGround-LA. Over the next year she will expand her 10-min play, Mother Earth Day, into a full-length play.
19/20 Vision Selected As Semi-Finalist for Bay Area Playwright’s Festival 2020
Daysha has been selected as a semi finalist for the 43rd annual Bay Area Playwright’s Festival for her play, 19/20 Vision…
Daysha Selected as 2x Winner of UCLA’s Dini Ostrov Award for Playwriting
Daysha has won UCLA’s Dini Ostrov Stage Spirit Award for playwriting for the second consecutive year for her latest play, What Happened To The Taco Truck on Santa Monica and Vine?
Daysha Selected For Television Academy Internship For Summer 2020
Daysha is excited to be joining the Television Academy’s prestigious summer internship program for the summer of 2020!
Daysha Selected As Finalist For AAUW Career Development Grant
Daysha was selected as a finalist for the American Association of University Women’s (AAUW) career development grants.
Mother Earth Day Selected for The Best Of PlayGround-LA Gala 2020
Daysha’s newest 10-min play, Mother Earth Day, which was written as part of Playground LA’s Writer’s Pool for 2019-2020, was selected as one of the top 6 plays for season 8 of Playground’s Monday Night Reading Series.
Daysha Selected for UCLA’s Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship
Daysha is selected to be part of the inaugural class for UCLA’s Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship for Spring 2020.
Mother Earth Day Selected For People’s Choice Award at PlayGround-LA’s Monday Night Reading Series
Daysha’s newest 10-min play, Mother Earth Day, which was written as part of Playground LA’s Writer’s Pool for 2019-2020, was selected as the People’s Choice Award winner for Playground LA’s Monday Night Reading Series in March 2020.
Daysha Self-Publishes First E-Book, Eat Your Way To Self-Confidence on Amazon
Eat Your Way To Self-Confidence: How To Shed The Real Weight That’s Killing Your Confidence, Develop Healthy Sustainable Habits, and Finally Eat What You “Want!” is Daysha’s first e-book project based on her years of health, fitness, and self-confidence discoveries after doing Fitness Genes in 2017.