BIO
Little is known of Ayesha’s childhood on the Jersey Shore, though it is believed that she once rocked a spiral perm, air bangs, braces, and a well-worn copy of the seminal work of literature, “Getting Boys This Easy Isn’t Fair.”
With aspirations of one day having moves like Tawny Kitaen, Ayesha hit ballet class in the only way she knows how to hit things: hard. It was there that Ayesha heard the words that George Balanchine once told his dancers, “you have to be willing to die for it to really go all the way,” and took it as artistic manifesto, a credo for life.
Ayesha studied music at Barnard College, Columbia University, and acting at William Esper Studios and with Wynn Handman. Despite her training, Ayesha has never appeared on television in the United States, though if she did it would be in an hour-long drama because Ayesha is a very serious person.
Ayesha can neither confirm nor deny that she was in a Spice-Girls-style pop group in Asia. She can, however, confirm that directing cats in a green screen environment is a character-building experience. Much like “Ah-Yes,” the character she plays in We Are The Prototypes, Ayesha is effortlessly “more ironic than Alanis.”
While known to be indigenous to New York City, there have been Ayesha sightings in the greater Los Angeles area.
Also, Ayesha is an ordained practitioner of ritual magick.
Also, Ayesha speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Also, Ayesha has an unusual alter-ego named Little Custard who likes narwhals…and decorative gourds.
More is more.
Acting
Ayesha’s acting style is marked by bold choices and a seemingly limitless range. In a climate where narcolepsy-inducing “just be yourself” acting has become the norm, Ayesha stands out from the crowd as a vibrant innovator.
Ayesha’s most recent dramatic work includes Bluebirds, an edgy film with intense fight choreography in which she plays opposite James Chen of The Walking Dead. Her comedic chops shine in We Are The Prototypes—which she also directed—a mockumentary that is now beginning its festival run at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood as an official selection of Dances With Films.
Ayesha has trained with legendary acting coach, Wynn Handman, who founded The American Place Theatre in 1963 and has trained many excellent actors including Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Allison Janney, Denzel Washington and Richard Gere. Ayesha is also a graduate of the two-year Meisner training program at William Esper Studios, where she studied with Nancy Mayans, Deb Jackel, and Karen Chamberlain.
To check out Ayesha’s acting website, go to www.ayeshaadamoacting.com
Music
Ayesha also makes music. She might have been part of a pop sensation called Beauty4, a Spice-Girls-style girl group who released their first self-titled album on EMI Records Taiwan and performed internationally in Asia.
But now she does mostly electronic music in English. Prior to her emergence as one half of Alchemical Disco—whose first single “Atomic” reached #20 on the Music Week UK Commercial Pop Club charts—Ayesha collaborated on rock project, Loss of Eden, and contributed top lines and lyrics to projects with various producers. Her solo release, “Midnight Elite,” reached #16 on the Beatport Electronica charts (#29 in Deep House, #77 in Techno), and has been played on radio shows across the globe.
DJ
Ayesha has played in clubs across the globe as a DJ. Her first DJ mix CD release was a boxed set for the Muzik Boutique series on Highnote Records (映象唱片). Ayesha plays a melodically complex and aggressively building mixture of deep house, techno, progressive house and nu disco. Though her style has changed over the years, her excellent ear for melodic but tasteful tracks in any genre remains constant, as does her aptitude for seamlessly programmed and effortlessly extended beatmixes that don’t shy away from risk taking. While Ayesha began her DJ career spinning vinyl, she currently prefers Ableton and the APC 40, and has been known to perform Live PA sets as well. You can hear Ayesha on the first Tuesday of every month at 9pm EST on her radio show for Globalmixx Radio – back episodes are available as a free podcast on iTunes.
Ayesha writes and directs films, too. Her directorial debut, We Are The Prototypes, is having its world premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood as an official selection of Dances With Films. Several other films that she has variously written, directed, and produced are now in post-production. Whether working in comedy or drama, Ayesha’s style is marked by surrealism, a suspension of time, bold acting, and unique and colourful worlds.
