Mikayla Faye is an LA and NYC based actor, writer, and director. She received her BA in Theatre Performance and English from Tulane University in 2023, graduating in three years with magna cum laude honors. She was also the recipient of several university-wide awards, including the Dorothy Young Memorial Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and the Laura Roseanne Adderley Prize for Student Scholarship on the Study of Slavery, its Continuing Legacies, and the Cultures of Resistance Against Anti-Blackness. She also was among the first students to ever direct a Tulane main stage production.

Mikayla recently worked on Fallen Angel (dir. Josalin Breault) and Behemoth (dir. Kyle Wright), both currently in production.