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Sayra Player born July 31st, is an American actress, writer, producer and filmmaker. She starred in independent films that premiered at Sundance, BAM, SXSW and Rotterdam film festival. TV credits include BLUE BLOODS, LAW AND ORDER, SVU, [|FBI] and INSIDE AMY SCHUMER. She has had 3 plays published and wrote, produced and directed the award winning short film "Uncle Silas" (available on Amazon). Sayra serves on the board of the 70’s year old bi-coastal legendary Actors Studio, where she is also an acting member. She served on the narrative feature’s jury at the Greenwich film festival (2017). She served as Artistic Director of The Collective NY (2018-2019) before that she was the head of development, Monday workshop curator and also produced 4 of their productions. She has extensive downtown theatre credits and studied in Italy and Poland with the Workcenter for Jerzy Grotowski.

Her longstanding mentorship with Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Elizabeth Kemp give her the focus and support to understand the powerful potential of female leaders in the arts.