About

A multi-hyphenate filmmaker originally from Querétaro, Mexico, and raised in San Diego, Nahyr has always had a heart for storytelling.

Brought to the United States at the young age of five, Nahyr acclimated to American culture and the English language by watching Bugs Bunny cartoons and reading Ramona Quimby books. To the outside world, Nahyr seemed a pretty typical 90’s kid; carrying her Lisa Frank Trapper-Keeper, drinking Capri Suns and Pop Tarts like they were going out of style, and lathering on lipgloss from her Poly Pocket locket. But as she walked through her family’s one-bedroom apartment home, she walked into the other half of her world. A world in which she sang Alejandro Sanz, Ana Gabriel, and Luis Miguel while she helped clean with her family, where she watched telenovelas and Chespirito, and ate sopita de fideo and molletes. She didn’t know this yet, but this duality would later shape her voice as an artist as well as an advocate.

Nahyr officially began her career at CSU Fresno where she studied theater and dance. In Fresno, Nahyr had the opportunity to perform with the Grupo Dramático Alejandro Glúsman (GDAG), as well as the Portable Dance Troupe, University Dance Theatre, and the CSUF Salsa Team. While in Fresno, through her work with GDAG Nahyr also was given the opportunity to launch and head the Dance Committee for Arte America. In 2006 Nahyr transferred to CSU Los Angeles in an effort to expand her learning and training. At CSULA she received her B.A. in Theatre Arts and Dance with an emphasis in Choreography. Her decision to transfer paid off when she was offered a choreography intensive in Paris as part of the M.A.D.E. in France program.

After college, Nahyr worked for the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) officially as a membership coordinator, but as she would later realize; here she really learned the ropes of producing. During her time at NALIP, Nahyr also began to become aware of the disparity of Latinos in the industry.

Nahyr went on to form JuxtaPosition Dance Theatre for which she served as Artistic Director and choreographer. In addition to creating original works for the company, auditioning, and training dancers, Nahyr designed dance curriculum to offer to underrepresented and underserved communities throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. Throughout her years teaching dance in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Nahy had come to know the disparity in access to arts education within these communities and had developed relationships with other organizations working to bridge these gaps. These experiences eventually fostered in Nahyr a desire to impact change in representation in film and television which led her to seek out graduate school.

In 2022, she completed her M.F.A in Producing, Screenwriting & Directing at Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles.

Recently, Nahyr's debut feature screenplay, Dancing with Plato, achieved recognition at numerous film festivals including "Best Drama Screenplay," "Best First Time Screenwriter," and "Best Screenplay." Additionally, she has received numerous awards including "Best Actress in Short," "Best Director," “Best First Time Director,” and "Best Student Short," for her debut short film Everything I Never Said. Her sophomore short film, El Encuentro, has received “Best Original Story,” “Best Actress,” “Best Actor,” and “Best Script in Short.” Her most recent film, Platonic Love, premiered in Los Angeles at the TCL Chinese Theater and will be premiering in Orange County at the Old Towne Film Festival in September.

Nahyr has been a recipient of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers’ Emerging Content Creators Scholarship for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022). Recently, Nahyr was one of nine writers selected for the Script Development program at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto for the second consecutive year.

Nowadays, Nahyr fully embraces her bicultural and multihyphenate identity and seeks to use her storytelling and filmmaking to elevate Latinx voices and representation in every facet of the industry.