Aleesha Nash is a multidisciplinary artist traversing disciplines of performance, video, and illustration. Over the past few years, Aleesha’s work focused on themes addressing race, colorism, Western beauty standards, and positive youth development. She is interested in stories that help shift the inaccuracies around African Americans' cultural identity.

Her work has been seen Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre, The National Black Theatre, The Flea Theater, Primary Stages, The Wild Project, The Arctic Group, Kraine Theatre, the Orange Giraffe Project, as well as the Drama League in New York City and at Goddard College in Vermont.

Aleesha is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Program. She holds an MA from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and an MFA in dramatic writing from Goddard College in Vermont, where she received their Engaged Artist Award.