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AISSA ROSE GUEYE

Aissa is a Senegalese-American writer and filmmaker raised in New York City and currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles. She has worked as a script coordinator and writer’s assistant on HBO Max’s RAP SH!T (Seasons 1 & 2), HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness (Season 2), OWN’s Queen Sugar (Season 7), and Audible’s We Stay Looking (Season 1).

In 2024, she was one of two individuals selected to shadow the acclaimed and multi-award-winning showrunner and writer Mara Brock Akil on the set of her upcoming Netflix series, Forever. In 2023, she was one of four writers chosen for Story27 Productions' prestigious Writers’ Colony, where she completed a television pilot during the fall residency.

Her work as a writer and director in film and photography has been featured on HBO, HBO MAX, Issa Rae Presents, and Afropunk, and showcased at esteemed festivals, including BlackStar Film Festival, Black Harvest Film Festival, and the Montreal International Black Film Festival.

Aissa holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and African American Studies, with a concentration in Creative Writing, from Wesleyan University.

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