İlayda Mcintosh

İlayda Mcintosh is an award-winning British-born, Brooklyn-based writer / director of Jamaican and Turkish heritage. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the recipient of the Turkish Philanthropy Funds’ Changemaker Scholarship, the Dalio Family Scholarship and the Jean Stein Scholarship.

As a writer, she explores journeys of migration, complex cultural identities and what it means to belong; to a place, a person, to oneself.

İlayda is also the co-founder and co-artistic director of Honey Theatre. A creative production company and community, championing bold storytellers of the Global Majority across London and New York.