About Me
As a black and queer filmmaker and production designer, Cyrus enjoys telling stories that challenge our understanding of our realities.
Beginning their artistic career as an actor, Cyrus has always been surrounded by the arts and storytelling. Five years ago they moved to New York to study Drama and Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where their desire to tell deeper abrasive queer stories brought them to directing.
At NYU they directed their first three student films,”Pipe Dreams,” a dark aspirational horror short about the limits of a failed dancer, “Infatuation” an experimental dance film about the cycles of romance and “Hotline” a visceral depiction of living with depression. In 2022 they directed “Capsized,” a grungy fairytale fashion film for the musician Miiv, shot by Isabel Padilla. Their debut film “SKIN,” is a queer sci-fi post-apocalyptic short that investigates intimacy in isolation, which was created in collaboration with Bryce Dallas Howard’s Nine Muses Lab.
Design has always been important to their work by creating a dynamic visual pallet that furthers the themes of the stories they tell. In the past year they have had the opportunity to design for Rodney Chrome, Sabrina Song and The Wonder Years, and work in the art department for iD Magazine, Converse and Showtime.
Cyrus loves to explore essences of our humanity through exciting genres like sci-fi, horror and experimental filmmaking techniques. It's their goal as a director to tell surreal, diverse and queer stories which push and provoke audiences' perspectives.
