BIO

Regina Hoyles is an award-winning writer, actor, and filmmaker who got her start in the entertainment industry early at nine years old. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in Drama and minored in the Business of Entertainment. She created NAPS, a comedic web series which was featured as a web series to watch by Shadow and Act and screened at festivals like NYC Webfest. Regina wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her first short film entitled ADULLAM which premiered as an official selection in the 2020 Bentonville Film Festival and received distribution on REVOLT TV’s anthology series, “Short and Fresh." Adullam was awarded for "Best Screenplay" at the 2022 inaugural Black Girls Rock! Film Fest and “Best Black Lens Film” at the Sidewalk Film Festival among others.

She is the founder of RLH Productions, a boutique production company focused on amplifying Black stories and storytellers, through which she also serves as a producer to other independent filmmakers. She has produced projects including the short films tender and Look Back At It (dir. Felicia Pride) which received the Lionsgate/STARZ Producer Award at the Blackstar Film Festival and a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Narrative Short at the Chicago International Film Festival respectively. She also produced and stars in the proof of concept short film WELCOME HOME (dir. Jo Rochelle) which will premiere in 2024.

Regina was recently staffed as writer on the new animated Disney series HEY AJ! executive produced by Martellus Bennett who authored the children’s book of the same name. As a filmmaker, she is gearing up to produce and direct her next short film, a Black women-centered psychological thriller entitled MISSING RHYTHMS written by playwright turned screenwriter Aja Houston. As an actor, she can be seen guest starring on shows like THE MARVELOUS MS. MAISEL (Amazon), THE CHI (Showtime), ALL RISE (OWN) and  9-1-1: LONE STAR (FOX).

Regina also serves as the 2024 Pre-Production Supervisor for the 501c3 organization Black Girls Film Camp, providing script feedback and production support to Black girls ages 13-17.