Celebrating over twenty years following her own path in arts and entertainment, pure creative gold. founder-creator Kaira Akita has a passion for leading personal and cultural stories across multiple genres that tap deep into our true human element — specifically via central themes of change, growth, learning, leadership, and  liberation.

TV + FILM BACKGROUND

Kaira started her career behind the scenes leading marketing, events, and editorial for Atlanta’s Tony-award winning Alliance Theatre before transitioning out front as one of the first local actresses to breakthrough in the early Southeast television and film scene. Credits include supporting and guest star roles with Tyler Perry Studios (Why Did I Get Married, The Family That Preys, Meet the Browns, House of Payne); her starring role in the Sundance film turned BET’s first scripted television series Somebodies; and appearances on Being Mary Jane (BET), Star (FOX), Little Britain USA (HBO), Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime), Everything I Did Wrong in My 20s (Cleo TV), and Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Netflix).

THEATRE BACKGROUND

On stage, Kaira cut her teeth starring in a one-year run of Atlanta’s longest running, top-selling  theatre comedy, Peachtree Battle, and performed in local Southeast and West Coast productions of Blues for An Alabama Sky, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough, the Paul Robeson Theatre Festival, and Sunday Mourning, a Los Angeles stage play that garnered her a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress.

CURRENTLY

Today, Kaira is an independent artist moving seamlessly in front of and behind the scenes at her own pace and interest. Her directing projects and works-in-progress have been featured at Women in Film Los Angeles’ Mentor Circle Program, the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, Niecy Nash’s Chocolate Chick Inc. production company, Kids at Play, BET, Food Network, Hallmark Channel, and most recently, the 2024 HerArts Film Lab in Paestum, Italy. 

WORKING WITH KAIRA

Trusted for her ability to develop innovative concepts, characters, and collaborations, to work with Kaira is to truly work with nothing less than pure creative gold. — whether under her own banner or as a talented hire for others who share her narrative vision.  

She is always open to discuss interesting performer, director, and/or development opportunities with other innovative artists, creators, studios, and organizations. If you have something in mind that has her name all over it, reach out. You can view some of her previous storytelling work here, as well as her complete portfolio of ventures here.