Storyteller
 
Writer/Director/Producer

Carla Debbie Alleyne is a playwright, screenwriter, and director who received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Film and Television and Dramatic Writing from New York University. Carla's play Hey, Little Walter was produced Off-Broadway at Playwright's Horizon as part of the Young Playwrights Festival when she was 16 years old. The play was also published by Dell Books. Carla collaborated on the musical Bring in the Morning which was produced at the Apollo Theater and starred Lauryn Hill. It was the Apollo's first theatrical production. Carla has directed several music videos and was the first to interview the Notorious B.I.G. as part of a hip-hop music video show she produced out of her NYU dorm room entitled Keep It Real. Carla has also written numerous screenplays, which have been optioned by production companies such as HBO and Miramax Films. While studying at Princeton Theological Seminary, Carla produced, wrote, and directed the plays The Artivist and The Mogul at Princeton University's Frist Campus Center.  The Mogul, a hip-hop musical, went on to win the Grace Infused Theater Festival in 2015, and the Artivist, a one-man musical about Bayard Rustin, was produced at the East Village Theater in 2019.  Carla is the designer of the sustainable and repurposed clothing line Arm Candy Culture Inc... She has also received Master's Degrees from Mercy College in Education and Princeton Theological Seminary in Theology.  Carla currently works as a content and scriptwriter for various Fortune 500 companies and teaches screenwriting workshops through her production company Scarlet Cord Entertainment.