2021 ILLUMINATIONS GRANT FINALIST

YASHA LELONEK

Yasha Lelonek is an actor, model, director, multimedia visual artist, and hot girl moving the world. Yasha holds a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of The Arts. Originally from Queens Village, New York and raised in the Atlantan suburbia, she is now based in Brooklyn. She is the director and star of the multimedia film short Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair, creator of the painted-photographs Happy Birthday Gia Love and The Muses, author of the choreopoem FIEBRE, and star of the upcoming short films Pretty Boy and Las Tres Chicas.

Learn more about Yasha Lelonek at her Instagram.