Yhá Mourhia Wright

Yhá Mourhia Wright is a bicoastal, multi-hyphenate artist from San José, CA. In May 2016, she graduated with her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School. Upon graduation, she founded her production company, YháWright Productions, and developed the company’s first original series, #LoveMyRoomie, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. During her previous time as the Senior Video Producer for MadameNoire, she simultaneously led production for three digital shows: Listen to Black Women, In This Room, and Healthy Her. Yhá Mourhia has had the pleasure to interview beloved talent such as Kim Fields, Robin Givens, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Ester Dean, and Emil Wilbekin. Additional Credits Include Spot A True Period Piece (Short Film, Producer, Assistant Director); Pillow Talk streaming on BET+ (Supporting); It Stays Here (Short Film, Writer/Producer); The Basement (LABryinth Theater Company, Writer). Her most recent podcast, Inside Out Podcast, can be found on iHeart Radio, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. In 201, Yhá Mourhia became a published author in the anthology, Purpose to Passion: A Journey to Self-Care in which she shares her journey to recovering from sexual assault and alchemizing her pain into a testimony. Her most recent short film, Don’t Be Desperate starring D. Woods (Broadway’s ‘For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf…’ Danity Kane) premiered at the 2022 Hip Hop Film Festival in Harlem and won the Spirit of Independent Film Award.

Format: Short Films

Location: San Francisco, California, United States